News Finding: Plans of an extension were in discussion when Rasmussen showed them his photographs, shocking the team in Stockholm.
Paper Finding: 2a,i ; Supplementary Video).
News Context: It was pure accident that led him to the discovery. Plans of an extension were in discussion when Rasmussen showed them his photographs, shocking the team in Stockholm. The scientists' surprise was due to the fact that the microfossils suggest that fungi existed on Earth around two billion years earlier than scientists initially believed.
Paper Context: These tend to congregate on the basal parts of filaments and on basal films, and be more rare on distal parts of filaments (Fig. 2a,i ; Supplementary Video). A number of observations clearly indicate, however, that the Ongeluk structures were formed as filaments in voids, not as tunnels in minerals: