Sikkim's Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang proclaimed a thrilling find: a 1.5-billion-year-old stromatolite fossil discovered ...

Stromatolites have been around for over ... These bacteria build up columns by binding particles in the water. The cyanobacteria, that form these structures, photosynthesize and produce oxygen ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

Cyanobacteria are a type of microorganism ... for life on Earth comes in the form of nearly 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites, layered concretions of ancient microbes. Blue-green algae, which ...

Chief minister Prem Singh Tamang has called the discovery 'groundbreaking' and stated that his government will soon transform ...

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microscopic ... a 2.018–1.854 Ga pleurocapsalean cyanobacterium preserved in silicified stromatolites. Here we report the oldest direct evidence of thylakoid ...

Cyanobacteria, for instance, which are evolutionarily ancient, slowly produce huge, domelike structures called stromatolites, as a byproduct of their metabolisms. Made of sand or minerals ...

LF: So, basically, microbialites are the modern version of stromatolites, which are the oldest fossils ... Part of the lagoon is green because they're having blooms of cyanobacteria, which is ...

Officials say a total of 330 elephants are now known to have died from ingesting cyanobacteria. Poaching has been ruled out as a cause of death. Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories Why ...