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Science Section => Science General Discussion => Biology, Psychology & Medicine => Topic started by: PopeyesPappy on March 01, 2017, 04:59:57 PM

Title: World's oldest microfossils?
Post by: PopeyesPappy on March 01, 2017, 04:59:57 PM
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
Title: Re: World's oldest microfossils?
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: World's oldest microfossils?
Post by: Baruch on March 01, 2017, 07:56:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: World's oldest microfossils?
Post by: badger2 on March 01, 2017, 09:19:10 PM
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.