Sometimes it's hard to identify exactly what a fossil is from—but wouldn’t it be cool to be able to point at a fossil and know that it’s the first plant? Join Michael Aranda for a fun new episode of SciShow where we've put together a list of the oldest fossils of their kind that we know of so far! Let's go! If you liked this video, check out more videos about natural history and paleontology on SciShow's sister channel, Eons: null Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Andreas Heydeck, Justin Lentz, Will and Sonja Marple, Benny, Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Philippe von Bergen, Patrick, Fatima Iqbal, Lucy McGlasson, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Accalia Elementia, Kathy & Tim Philip, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Thomas J., and Patrick D. Ashmore. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: null ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.techinsider.io/oldest-fossils-ever-discovered-2015-10 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/scientists-may-have-found-earliest-evidence-life-earth http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanofr.html http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_Life/Stromatolites.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3478915.stm http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/palaeofiles/fossilgroups/crustacea/fossils.html http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/burgess.html http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=32 http://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess/canadaspis.html http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/vertebrata/craniata.html#Haikouichthys http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7548/full/nature14437.html https://nature.ca/notebooks/english/coalrep.htm http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/h/hylonomus.html https://finstofeet.com/2012/01/05/coming-of-the-amniotes/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9079000/9079963.stm http://www.livescience.com/15734-oldest-placental-mammal.html http://www.nature.com/news/rival-species-recast-significance-of-first-bird-1.16469 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7548/full/nature14438.html http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/o/obruchevichthys.html http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/e/elginerpeton.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v373/n6513/abs/373420a0.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100106-tetrapod-tracks-oldest-footprints-nature-evolution-walking-land/ http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/110901_earlymammals http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/09/first_face_entelognathus_primordialis_the_fish_that_is_changing_evolutionary.html http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-fish-face-shows-roots-of-modern-jaw-1.13823