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.*
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...