Ancient cone-like fossils suggest life on Earth may go back more than 3.7 billion years

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 18:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

How long has life flourished on our planet? A new study suggests it could go back more than 3.7 billion years. In a study published Wednesday in Nature, a team of Australian researchers describe small conical structures that may have been built by microorganisms less than a billion years after...

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