If verified, these fossils would surpass 3.7-billion-year-old microbial mats found in Greenland as the oldest known traces of life. The microfossils also lend support to the idea that the warm ...

May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...