The Oldest Creature You Can See without a Microscope? | Michigan's Grypania

In 1924, a boy was born in China who would transform the Michigan iron industry and discover what was, at the time, considered the oldest macroscopic fossil ever. This is the story of Tsu-Ming Han and Grypania.

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🔍 Want to learn more? Here are the key sources I used for researching this video:
General history:
https://www.asianstudies.org/publicat...
https://departments.kings.edu/history...
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/educati...
https://www.ishpeminghistory.org/ishp...

Tsu-Ming Han:
"Tsu-Ming Han: Man of Two Different Worlds" by Dr. Russell M. Magnaghi and James F. Shefchik
https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/obje...
https://northerntradition.wordpress.c...
https://nmu.lyrasistechnology.org/rep...
https://archives.nmu.edu/CUPS%20Trans...
https://archives.nmu.edu/CUPS%20Trans...
https://northerntradition.wordpress.c...

Grypania:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
http://complexityexplorer.s3.amazonaw...
https://gustavus.edu/geology/nobel_di...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewc...
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/ful...

Thumbnail photo credit: James St. John, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeol...