It might not have been Indiana Jones who found it, but the "Holy Grail" (of fossils) has been discovered. A previously unclassified creature that lived over 500 million years ago, considered the "Holy Grail of paleontology," has finally been identified, thanks to fossil fat. The creature, known as Dickinsonia, was previously found in northwest Russia near the White Sea. It had not been classified before, until other recently found Dickinsonia fossils showed the presence of organic tissue, allowing researchers to identify molecules of cholesterol, described as "a hallmark" of animals. “The problem that we had to overcome was finding Dickinsonia fossils that retained some organic matter,” said ANU doctoral student Ilya Bobrovskiy, who discovered the Dickinsonia.

Source: Fox News September 21, 2018 15:50 UTC