A research team has identified what they believe are the world's oldest microfossils at a site in Canada. They are estimating their age at 3.77 - 4.28 billion years.
Others are skeptical.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/world/oldest-microfossils-canada/index.html
It amazes me how soon life started on Earth - just a few hundred million years. That bodes well for other life in the universe.
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 01, 2017, 05:14:51 PM
It amazes me how soon life started on Earth - just a few hundred million years. That bodes well for other life in the universe.
You and I are just highly mutated stromatolites.
On another thread, we mentioned a report several years old of the fossil worms in the iron deposits of Minnesota/Michigan. These Canadians may be older.