A team of Australian and British geologists say in an article in Nature Geoscience they have discovered fossilized, single-cell organisms that are 3-4 billion years old — which would make them the oldest known fossils on earth.
The fossils were found in sandstone at the base of a rock formation in Western Australia.
What was Mother Earth like then, back at the beginning?
Geologists who peer back in time say the sandstone where the fossils were found with the aid of a powerful microscope was a beach on one of the few islands that had started to appear above the…
New fossil find dates life’s start on our new planet
