An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

It held some of the strangest fossils on the Jurassic Coast due to the population of tiny algae-like microbes that ... onto the trees which built living mats of limestone called thrombolites ...

Over the eons, these colonies trapped and encrusted particles of calcium carbonate onto the trees, building living mats ... as "algal burrs" that still sit on the coastline and form the Fossil ...