A newly discovered system of lagoons in Argentina featuring giant stromatolites could provide a window into early life on Earth, researchers said.

Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, ...

A newly discovered system of lagoons in Argentina featuring giant stromatolites could provide a window into early life on Earth, researchers said.

Hungarian researchers have discovered unique bacterial communities in thermal waters that may help unravel the development of stromatolites, one of Earth's oldest rock formations. These findings ...

Fossils called stromatolites from Western Australia were created by microbes 3.48 billion years ago.

Researchers have discovered a unique lagoon ecosystem in Argentina’s high Puna de Atacama Desert, they announced at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union last week. The ecosystem, which ...

The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have ...

Science Argentina Scientists find signs of earliest life on Earth after 3.5 billion-year-old discovery Stromatolites (Greek for "layered rock") are living fossils found only in a few salty lagoons ...

Dr. Ashley Martin: "A large ammonium reservoir would have been very beneficial for early life, providing the nitrogen source needed for biological processes to occur." ...

We Owe Our Lives to 3-Billion-Year-Old Stromatolite Fossils The humble stromatolite fossils may not look as cool as dinosaurs, but they were the rulers of ancient Earth — and none of us would be here ...

A newly discovered system of lagoons in Argentina featuring giant stromatolites could provide a window into early life on Earth, researchers said.