The surprising place life on Earth could have started 3.5 billion years ago
 

The surprising place life on Earth could have started 3.5 billion years ago
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Life on Earth might have started billions of years ago on land, **t in the sea, according to a new study. *

A group of researchers found that the red rocks of the Pilbarra in Western Australia contain terrestrial hot spring deposits, and in them, the earliest k**wn remnants of life on land.*

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Dating back 3.5 billion years, the finding (published in the journal Nature on Tuesday) moves back evidence of life on land by 580 million years. And **t only that, it hints at the possibility that life on Earth began **t in the ocean, as commonly thought, but on land-based hot springs. *Mind blown** Read more...

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