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Potentially oldest fossils identified in Greenland

Scarinae · 2016-09-02 13:37:43

Did anyone else see this news story from a few days ago? These traces of stromatolites in Greenland are potentially 3.7 billion years old - if this is correct, they're over 200 million years older than the fossils previously considered to be the oldest. It's been published in Nature, you can read the full piece here.

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Did anyone else see this news story from a few days ago? These traces of stromatolites in Greenland are potentially 3.7 billion years old - if this is correct, they're over 200 million years older than the fossils previously considered to be the oldest.

It's been published in Nature, you can read the full piece here.

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