May 9, 2017

Acritarch from the Doushantuo Formation (Image courtesy John Cunningham, University of Bristol)

An article published in “The Journal of the Geological Society” describes a research on fossils dating back to about 600 million years ago found in the Chinese site of Weng’an. A team of researchers led by the British University of Bristol believes that those might not be some of the oldest remains of animals ever found but algae.