shin101
13-07-2010, 20:27
YouTube - French Scientists Discover Important Time Stamping Fossils (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rFaVYwjZCs&playnext_from=TL&videos=GGo6OMAjcEk&feature=recentu)
It could be a discovery that changes our understanding of how life first appeared on Earth.
A group of French scientists have unearthed evidence that they say proves the first multi-cellular organisms came into being some 2.1 billion years ago.
That's more than one-and-a-half billion years earlier than previously thought.
The discovery was made in the west central African nation of Gabon in one of the best-preserved fossil-bearing sites in the world, by a group of paleontologists who stumbled across the findings by accident.
When they brought their samples back to France for analysis, they found fossils of organisms three to five centimeters long buried in the rocks that were formed 2.1 billion years ago.
One of the scientists involved, Abderrazak El Albani, is very excited about the findings and hopes to stimulate an international research effort into the discovery.
Liebe Grüße,
Shin
It could be a discovery that changes our understanding of how life first appeared on Earth.
A group of French scientists have unearthed evidence that they say proves the first multi-cellular organisms came into being some 2.1 billion years ago.
That's more than one-and-a-half billion years earlier than previously thought.
The discovery was made in the west central African nation of Gabon in one of the best-preserved fossil-bearing sites in the world, by a group of paleontologists who stumbled across the findings by accident.
When they brought their samples back to France for analysis, they found fossils of organisms three to five centimeters long buried in the rocks that were formed 2.1 billion years ago.
One of the scientists involved, Abderrazak El Albani, is very excited about the findings and hopes to stimulate an international research effort into the discovery.
Liebe Grüße,
Shin