'World’s oldest fossils’ - just pretty rocks?

[Still Waters]

In 2016, a series of unassuming stone shapes rocked the paleobiology world when they were declared the earliest fossilized life yet found. Standing up to 1.6 inches tall, the triangular forms line up like a string of inverted flags in an outcrop on the southwest coast of Greenland that dates back 3.7 billion years.

“If these are really the figurative tombstones of our earliest ancestors, the implications are staggering,” NASA astrobiologist Abigail Allwood wrote in a review article that accompanied the Nature study announcing the find.

But even as Allwood penned these words, she had a nagging sense that something was amiss.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-oldest-stromatolite-fossilized-life-rocks-greenland/

['Walt' E. Kurtz]

I know that fossils finds can be worth much and that they sometimes make good finds in Dorset UK