Intact Starch Granules in "Ancient" Plant Fossil

by Jeffrey Tomkins and Timothy Clarey*

Fossils keep revealing biomolecules that should be completely deteriorated and disintegrated if they are millions of years old. Scientists have just discovered intact starch granules in plant tissues alleged to be 280 million years old.1


Stromatolites by Land and by Sea

Scientists believed stromatolites were extinct—until they found them living in Shark Bay, Australia, in 1956.2 Living stromatolites just keep popping up in newer and more diverse environments. The latest research has identified them even living on land.1


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