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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Traces of ancient life were locked inside a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby from Greenland, according to a new study. The planet's oldest rubies, sparkling red gemstones made up of a transparent red mineral ...

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