Meaning of Uzma. African name. In African, the name Uzma means-greatest.The name Uzma originated as an African name. The name Uzma is most often used as a girl name or female name.
Compared to the oldest fossils ever found, though, Sue is the new kid on the block [source: Field Museum ]. Some of those ancient fossils, known as stromatolites, are more than 50 times older than Sue -- 3.45 billion years old, to be exact [source: University of Munster ].
Fossils of 3.5-billion-year-old microbial communities were discovered in Australia. Credit: Nora Noffke Scientists have found fossil evidence of ancient microbial communities that lived 3.5 billion years ago. The new fossils, described in the journal Astrobiology, may be among the most ancient fossil life forms ever found. This is one of the, or the, oldest fossils ever found. You've got a 3.5-billion-year-old ecosystem, said study co-author Robert Hazen, an earth scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.