Here’s How a 635 Million-Year-Old Microfossil May Have Helped Thaw ‘Snowball Earth’ – ScienceAlert

An international team of scientists in South China accidentally discovered the oldest terrestrial fossil ever found, about three times more ancient than the oldest known dinosaur.
Investigations are still ongoing and observations will need to be independently verified, but the international team argues the long thread-like fingers of this ancient organism look a lot like fungi.
Whatever it is, the eukaryote appears to have fossilised on land roughly 635 million years ago, just as Earth was recovering…

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