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Earliest evidence of life on Earth 'found'

Manach · 2017-03-01 23:55:56

" Scientists have discovered what they say could be fossils of some of the earliest living organisms on Earth. They are represented by tiny filaments, knobs and tubes in Canadian rocks dated to be up to 4.28 billion years old. That is a time not long after the planet's formation and hundreds of millions of years before…

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02-03-2017 12:55am

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Scientists have discovered what they say could be fossils of some of the earliest living organisms on Earth.
They are represented by tiny filaments, knobs and tubes in Canadian rocks dated to be up to 4.28 billion years old.
That is a time not long after the planet's formation and hundreds of millions of years before what is currently accepted as evidence for the most ancient life yet found on Earth.
" - http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39117523

An interesting article from the BBC, that is its top story. I'd be a tad skeptical myself given the age of the rocks and the significant changes to rocks over time, hence damaging/altering samples. Still worth the read.

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