Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen helped enable the evolution of complex life. Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral [...]

Buried for 1.7 Billion Years: These Ancient Fossils May Rewrite the Story of Complex Life
Maxwell Lechte, University of Sydney, and Leigh Anne Riedman, University of California, Santa Barbara
