{"id":7760,"date":"2016-09-04T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T07:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2016-09-03T03:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:05:10","slug":"life-re-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/04\/life-re-written\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Re-written"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Phys.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet<\/h1>\n

by Seth Borenstein<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Scientists<\/a>In this photo provided by Laure Gauthiez, taken in July 2012, a field team examine rocks in Greenland.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists have found what they think is the oldest fossil on Earth, a remnant of life from 3.7 billion years ago when Earth’s skies were orange and its oceans green.<\/p>\n

In a newly melted part of Greenland, Australian scientists found the leftover structure from a community of microbes that lived on an ancient seafloor, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal\u00a0Nature<\/i>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

The discovery shows life may have formed quicker and easier than once thought, about half a billion years after Earth formed . And that may also give hope for life forming elsewhere, such as Mars, said study co-author Martin VanKranendonk of the University of New South Wales and director of the Australian Center for Astrobiology.<\/p>\n

“It gives us an idea how our planet evolved and how life gained a foothold,” VanKranendonk said.<\/p>\n

Scientists had thought it would take at least half a billion years for life to form after the molten Earth started to cool a bit, but this shows it could have happened quicker, he said. That’s because the newly found fossil is far too complex to have developed soon after the planet’s first\u00a0life forms<\/a>, he said.<\/p>\n

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