Hydropyrolysis - How Those Earliest Traces Of Animal Life Were Found
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 12:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
You mat have read recently about chemical fossils discovered in sedimentary rocks in Oman. Those fossil steroids, remnants of a type of sponge known as Demosponges, are between 635 and 750 million years old. They date back to around the time of the Marinoan glaciation, the last of the huge ice ages at the end of the Neoproterozoic era. read more
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