ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY (ROMIP) SPECIMEN 41145; All fossils photographed at ... deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life on Earth. After burbling along for more than ...

The oldest known fossils, however, are only 3.7 billion years old ... near such plumes have led some scientists to suggest them as the birthplaces of Earth’s first life forms. Organic molecules may ...

Ancient rocks in northwestern Canada may contain the oldest evidence of life on Earth. Scientists have ... Nanotechnology and the study's first author. The fossil find in Canada poses "exciting ...

Complex life began on Earth 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, scientists suspect. Until now, it was believed that animals first evolved ... But fossils discovered in Gabon ...

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any known trees. In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period, ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought ... Research detailed how formations in rock samples, thought to be fossils, suggest that the conditions required for life appeared ...

Credit: MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP/Getty Images Newly discovered fossils in Greenland suggest that life may have existed on Earth some 3.7 ... study is likely just the first round of scientific ...

Prototaxites, which lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago, was the first giant terrestrial life form to inhabit Earth. It grew trunk-like structures up to 8 metres tall and 1 metre wide.

Dr Neil Clark, a real life palaeontologist, shows a range of fossils including ... years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the evolution of the first life forms through ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Use fossils, like clues buried inside of rocks, to unlock the history of life on our planet. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is ...