Earliest Fungus-Like Fossils Discovered in 2.4 Billion-
Year-Old South African Bedrock (The fossils are 2
billion years older than previous finds and could
dramatically alter the timeline of the emergence
of life on Earth Jerry redfern, April 24, 2017
https://www.seeker.com/earth/earliest-fungus-like-fossils-discovered-in-24-billion-year-old-south-african-bedrock
Fossils may be earliest known multicellular life: study
by Marlowe Hood, PhysOrg, April 24, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-fossils-earliest-multicellular-life.html
The open access paper is:
Bengtson, S., B. Rasmussen, M Ivarsson, J. Muhling,
C. Broman, F. Marone, M. Stampanoni, and A. Bekker,
2017, Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old
vesicular basalt. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1,
Article number: 0141 doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0141
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0141
Yours,
Paul H.