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Old December 18th, 2017 #102
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Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago


Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-oldest...began.html#jCp