The Oldest Fossils Ever Found!

Scientists have found fossils that show life appearing on Earth much earlier than we thought. Meanwhile, could there be a new fundamental force?

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Sources:
Fossils
http://apnews.excite.com/article/2015...
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/47/14...
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/lif...
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_L...

Images
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/wp-conte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromat...



Fundamental Force
https://www.quantamagazine.org/201606...
http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.11...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.07411v2.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03591v1.pdf

Images - Special Thanks to:
Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/201606...
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda http://www.lucyreading.co.uk/