Oldest Fossils Yet Suggest Life on Earth Began Much Earlier Than We Thought - Singularity Hub

The microbes lived between 3.75 and 4.28 billion years ago, only 300 million years after Earth formed—a blink of an eye geologically.

On an outcrop of exposed volcanic and sedimentary rock on the eastern shores of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, researchers have unearthed what may be the earliest fossilized life forms ever discovere… [+4395 chars]

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