26.11.2017 - 04:29 [ New Indian Express ]

Bengaluru based geologist discovers 2,000 million years old microfossils

(23.November) Incidentally, the appearance of primitive life in the black shale coincides with the „Great Oxygenation Event“ that brought the transition of Earth‘s atmosphere from oxygen-poor (anoxic) to oxygen-rich status. The earth‘s atmosphere since then has been responsible for transformation of inanimate objects (inorganic elements and compounds) to the animate world of today with millions of diversity in the animal kingdom.