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08-31-2016, 09:42 PM
Greenland fossils may be the earliest evidence of life on Earth
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Newly discovered fossils in Greenland suggest that life may have existed on Earth some 3.7 billion years ago, a team of Australian scientists said. If the findings are confirmed, they would be the oldest evidence on life yet discovered.
The tiny microbial formations found in Isua, southwest Greenland, are around 220 million years older than the current earliest fossil evidence for life, according to a study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature19355) published Wednesday in the journal Nature.*
"This potentially pushes back our understanding of the antiquity of life on Earth, which is really quite astounding," Abigail Allwood, a research scientist and astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told Mashable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/greenland-oldest-fossils-life-on-earth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Newly discovered fossils in Greenland suggest that life may have existed on Earth some 3.7 billion years ago, a team of Australian scientists said. If the findings are confirmed, they would be the oldest evidence on life yet discovered.
The tiny microbial formations found in Isua, southwest Greenland, are around 220 million years older than the current earliest fossil evidence for life, according to a study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature19355) published Wednesday in the journal Nature.*
"This potentially pushes back our understanding of the antiquity of life on Earth, which is really quite astounding," Abigail Allwood, a research scientist and astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told Mashable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/greenland-oldest-fossils-life-on-earth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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