Claire. Posted August 31, 2016 #1 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) Oldest fossils found in Greenland, from time Earth was like Mars. The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland, raising chances of life on Mars aeons ago when both planets were similarly desolate. The experts found tiny humps, between one and 4 cm (0.4 and 1.6 inches) tall, in rocks at Isua in south-west Greenland that they said were fossilized groups of microbes similar to ones now found in seas from Bermuda to Australia. If confirmed as fossilized communities of bacteria known as stromatolites - rather than a freak natural formation - the lumps would pre-date fossils found in Australia as the earliest evidence of life on Earth by 220 million years. Read more: Reuters Additional Source: Live Science Edited August 31, 2016 by Clair Added Live Science link. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire. Posted August 31, 2016 Author #2 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Interesting follow-up article on what this find might mean for finding life on Mars: http://www.livescience.com/55952-what-oldest-fossils-mean-for-mars-life.html 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cox Posted September 1, 2016 #3 Share Posted September 1, 2016 very cool nice find 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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