New study finds oldest evidence of life may just be boring old rocks after all

Rocks seem like pretty unchanging time capsules, but not even stone is set in stone. A few years ago researchers studying stromatolites in Greenland dated them to 3.7 billion years old, making them the oldest evidence of life on Earth. However, a new study has now taken another look at the rocks and found that they probably weren't biological in origin.

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Category: Science

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• Australia
• Fossils
• Geology
• Greenland
• Life
• Microbes

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