New archaeological finds paint a new picture of Earth some 3.5 billion years ago.
*A sliver of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old rock from the Apex Chert deposit in Western Australia (top). An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock from the Apex Chert (bottom).
Jeff Miller (Epoxy mount); Courtesy of J. William Schopf, UCLA (microfossil)*
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fossil-discoveries-challenge-ideas-about-earths-start-20180122/
"Taken together, the latest evidence from the ancient Earth and from the moon is painting a picture of a very different Hadean Earth: a stoutly solid, temperate, meteorite-clear and watery world, an Eden from the very beginning."
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