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Fossil Older Than Oxygen on Earth Found in Australia
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 31764201:MV8yMTA2Mjg1XzM1NTAwNjE3XzlCQkZDOEYz] [quote:Anonymous Coward 31810416:MV8yMTA2Mjg1XzM1NTAwNTEyX0U5OTM4MjI1] [quote:NSF001:MV8yMTA2Mjg1XzM1NTAwNDc1XzIwNkZEQTM3] [quote:Anonymous Coward 31810416:MV8yMTA2Mjg1XzM1NTAwNDU1XzEyNTlCOEI1] What dating method was used? Please don't say Carbon 14. Anyway, if life existed on Earth before Oxygen, wouldn't that mean that the "primordial soup" is disproven? That would suggest that life did not indeed come forth from the "primordial soup" but from another source instead. [/quote] I don't see how this would change anything, the early soup was just o2 free. Could it maybe even be these early organisms are responsible for the oxygen we live on today? [/quote] That would require some heavy scientific explanation. [/quote] What? you think the planet formed with oxygen and anatmosphere around it? Are you an idiot? Oxygen the the atmosphere we've inherited is simply the by-products (waste) of whatever preceded us. [/quote]
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Researchers have found fossils of bacteria that a nearly 3.5 billion years old, believed to be the oldest visible fossils ever uncovered. The fossils, found in northwest Australia's Pilbara region, are from a time before oxygen existed on Earth and are from just one billion years after Earth's formation, according to Old Dominion University's Nora Noffke, one of the researchers who worked on the project.
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