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**
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