What is the youngest fossil ever found?

There really isn't any date cutoff for how young a fossil has to be; “fossil” is defined as “any trace of previous life.” Yes, I know that Wikipedia says that the cutoff is the start of the Holocene, about 10,000 years ago. read more

So I would say that the youngest fossil ever found was the seashell that someone has just now picked up on a beach, somewhere in the world. Some paleontologists use the term “subfossil” to mean bones, wood, etc. that are dead but that haven’t been buried or undergone significant chemical change or other fossilization processes. read more

A dinosaur fossil believed to be the youngest ever found was discovered by Yale scientists in Montana's Hell Creek formation, a study published in Biology Letters revealed. The 45-centimetre horn is understood to be from a triceratops. read more

Prior to the find, the oldest known Homo fossil had been a 2.3-million-year-old upper jaw also found in northern Ethiopia, so the dating pushes back the origin of the Homo genus by at least 400,000 years. read more