1.Red algae cystocarp was found for the first time and the discovery of the close relationship between algae cystocarp and metal sulfides has supplied the evidence for biomineralization.
4.And now, these scientists think they’ve found two species of multicellular red algae in some sedimentary rock from central India that dates back 1.6 billion years.
5.But in a paper published this week in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History think that they found 1.6 billion year old red algae.
6.Because of how big those cells are compared to the cells of other organisms, and some distinct structures inside those cells, they think it’s eukaryotic – specifically, a kind of red algae.
7.A paper published in 2000 identified one species of red algae from 1.2 billion year old fossils found in arctic Canada, which used to be the oldest eukaryote scientists were pretty sure of.