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Last year, another team of researchers published the discovery of microscopic fossils in Pilbara's Strelley Pool Formation, about 3.4bn years old.

A cache of microscopic fossils in rocks about 570 million years old contains the earliest record of animal life yet discovered.

Gunflint microfossils, assemblage of microscopic fossils uncovered in the Gunflint Iron Formation, a rock layer about two billion years old exposed in western Ontario, Canada.

This would start to change in the 1950s with the discovery of more stromatolites along with microfossils of the bacteria that built them, and the publication of a series of papers by the Soviet scientist Boris Vasil'evich Timofeev announcing the discovery of microscopic fossil spores in pre-Cambrian sediments.

The microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago.

The idea took wings in 1996 when NASA announced that a Martian meteorite carried what appeared to be microscopic fossils.

The size range of microscopic fossils, however, is immense.

The carbonate grains are associated with organic compounds, contain minute crystals of iron minerals similar in size and shape to those produced by bacteria, and exhibit elongated objects resembling microscopic fossils.

His studies of microscopic fossils led him to become one of the first proponents of a theory of evolution.

The ability to test soil directly for genetic material has extended archeology beyond the quest for the usual biological suspects, such as microscopic fossils.

He said there was still no evidence that life existed at the site, and the Opportunity does not have the instruments to hunt for microscopic fossils.