An article published in the journal “Nature Communications” reports the discovery in the Doushantuo Formation in China of microfossils dating back to about 635 million years ago attributed to a fungus-like organism. A team of researchers led by Professor Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Tech University examined these microfossils that could belong to the fungi that colonized the mainland in the Ediacaran period. They might also have contributed to the Earth’s recovery after a so-called snowball Earth period, an ice age that covered the entire planet.