For decades, researchers have speculated that life may have originated on Earth near ocean vents. But this new discovery could dramatically rewrite the history of life on Earth.
According to a new study, researchers believe they have discovered the earliest fossils on Earth, tracing its roots back 3.75 billion years and possibly as far as 4.2 billion years, in rocks discovered in a remote location in northern Québec, Canada, reports Vice.
If the formations within those rocks are biological in nature, this would press the timeline of life on this planet back by at least 300 million years, and this could display that the oldest known organisms are barely older than Earth itself. Such a discovery would have far-reaching ramifications for comprehending the origins of life on Earth, as well as for the quest for alien beings on other planets.
Dominic Papineau, an associate professor of geochemistry and astrobiology at University College London, gathered these presumptive m...
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