A new treasure trove of Cambrian fossils
Paleontologists discovered a new set of fossils from the ancient ancestors of animals in rocks from China.
Tag: Pyrite
Could we find evidence for life in fool’s gold?
Scientists looked for biosignatures in fool's gold from a Mars-like environment . They found small filaments within the rock that may once…
Mars could host a deep underground biosphere
Scientists estimate that parts of Mars’ would be able to support up to one million microbes per kilogram of rock deep underground.
Could “Fools’ Gold” have helped build the first proteins?
How and why humans exist are questions that have challenged different cultures ever since the dawn of civilization. Many scientists have…
Lasers and Fool’s Gold Give a Glimpse Into Our Ocean’s Past
The amount of trace elements in ocean pyrite correspond to ocean oxygen concentrations at different points in geologic time.