Sentences with phrase «earliest microfossils»

On August 21, 2011, a team of scientists published an article claiming to have found the earliest microfossils of possibly sulfur - metabolizing bacteria ever found.

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Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the Atapuerca Research Team in 2007 in Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, archaeologists extracted microfossils to find the earliest direct evidence of food eaten by early humans.

The book provides an interesting, in - depth, but very readable discussion of research on the earliest life on Earth and especially on microfossils.