Stromatolites

Recalling India’s Fossil Relics – and Protecting Them

Allen Nutman (left) and Vickie Bennet (right) with a specimen of 3,700 Myr-old stromatolites from Isua, Greenland. Credit: Yuri Amelin/Nature

World’s Oldest Fossils, From 3.7 Billion Years Ago, Found in Greenland

A solar flare observed on August 31, 2012. Credit: NASA

Solar Storms Could Solve Longstanding Paradox of How Life on Earth Arose