Digging deep into the Volyn quartz mine, near the city of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, scientists have discovered the oldest three-dimensional microfossils ever found – trapped in time some 1.5 billion years ago.
geoscientist Gerhard Franz, from TU Berlin."What we have found now is far more valuable than any gemstones."
A very particular set of geological circumstances preserved these microfossils. These life-forms would most likely have survived on minerals deep underground, and the researchers suggest subterranean geysers of, created by water and heat, would've produced the aluminum and silicon required to coat and preserve the creatures.
The thickness of the microorganisms varies between around 10 micrometers – a tiny fraction of a millimeter – and several millimeters, and they're structured like microscopic filaments, shells,The shapes and the associated minerals detected suggest some of the mysterious life forms are multicellular fungi-like organisms. Others had shell-like sheaths around their cells. Some of these structures haven't been seen before, making the discovery even more interesting.Franz.
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