microcosmic

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More than a thousand microfossils were recovered from the tartar.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

Compared to modern organisms, Barlow said, the microfossils have explicit similarities with algal colonies, including in the shape, size and distribution of both the colony and individual cells and membranes around both cell and colony.

From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2023

A separate mission in the 2030s will bring those rocks to Earth to analyse them for potential microfossils of simple life forms that are now long gone.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

Back at their lab at Peking University, Dong and his colleagues carefully dissolved this limestone rock with acid and then manually sorted through the microfossils in the residue.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2022

In sediment cores, different species of microfossils are found in different layers.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017