We know the earliest life that appeared on the surface of our planet wasn't complex life as we know it today. Rather, ancient life would've been much simpler than humans, plants, and various animals.

Scientists from the University of Waterloo studying how rubies are formed discovered the residue of a microorganism inside a 2.5 billion-year-old gemstone. The team found a ruby that contained ...

How old is life on Earth? Scientists say over 2.5 billion years old, thanks to a ruby. A group of scientists studying the geology of rubies in Greenland, a country known to hold the oldest deposits of ...

Canadian researchers have found carbon residue corresponding to what once was once ancient life encased in a 2.5-billion-year-old ruby. The University of Waterloo team, led by professor of Earth and ...

Ruby Bridges was only 6 years old when the Civil Rights movement came hammering at her door, making her the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. On the heels of ...

While analyzing some of the world’s oldest coloured gemstones, researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered carbon residue that was once ancient life, encased in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby.

Traces of life were discovered in minerals formed long ago, 2.5 billion years ago, when eukaryotes were not born. This is the first time that a trace of life has been found in a ruby, and research has ...