Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.
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The Earth isn’t permanent, but it was here for four billion years before humans arrived and should be here for several billion more.
Ancient rocks from Western Australia may not contain the world’s oldest fossils – but they do preserve organic compounds that may have formed the raw materials for the first living cells.
Scientists have now dated the ‘Great Oxidation Event’ to just before the planet’s first ‘snowball’ period.
An episode of extreme volcanic activity may have generated large iron formations long after a rise in atmospheric oxygen…
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