Monday, September 27, 2021

Geologists solve half-century-old mystery of animal traces in ancient rocks

Geologists have been baffled by perforations in an Australian quartzite (rock), identical in shape to burrows made in sands by crustaceans; the original sandy sediment is a billion years older than the oldest known animals. An international team of scientists has now resolved the mystery.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-09-geologists-half-century-old-mystery-animal-ancient.html