The detection of chitin in an Olenellus trilobite from the Carrara Formation (514.5 to 506.5 million years ago) of California, the United States, not only...
Chaetae are stiff bristles made of chitin that characterize many species of annelid worms.
Reconstruction of Shaihuludia shurikeni from the Spence Shale...
A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and elsewhere has identified a bacterial enzyme that can make a new type of polysaccharide,...
A rare iron mineral called santabarbaraite has never before been seen in a living organism, according to a paper to be published in the Proceedings of...
An international team of researchers has found the microscopic fungal filaments and mycelium-like structures in 715-million-year-old (Neoproterozoic Era)...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered 1,000- to 900-million-year-old microfossils of a fungus in estuarine shale of the Grassy Bay Formation...