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User ID: 31314745 Canada 01/02/2013 05:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fossil Found in Australia Older Than Oxygen Researchers have found fossils of bacteria that are 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. The fossils are imprints found on sandstone that was formed when microbes interacted with rock sediment. Scientists have discovered older rocks, but Noffke says those rocks have eroded to the point where traces of life are all but impossible to find. "I can confidently say the structures we're working on cannot be found on older rocks—until now, there has been nothing that is this well preserved," Noffke says. "There are some that are much older, but they experience metamorphosis—anything that's on them has been overprinted and it's difficult to reconstruct what was there." [ link to www.usnews.com] --"In this era of great big brains anything that can happen will. So hunker down." -- Kurt Vonnegut, JR. -- Galapagos. |
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User ID: 1308649 United States 01/02/2013 05:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Fossil Found in Australia Older Than Oxygen Predator vs. Alien "They cannot see what's-up if They are looking down." (TastyThoughts) "Something is smelly! Something is smelly, like an old barnacle encrusted shoe washing ashore in the middle of summer." (TastyThoughts) "Yes happy Earth day. Now go tell the wicked to stop damaging the Human Species therefore/and the Earth; For, they are discombobulating the entire Universe and upsetting the Most High God." (TastyThoughts) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7794073 United States 01/02/2013 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Fossil Found in Australia Older Than Oxygen What came first the fart or the stink. |
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User ID: 31314745 Canada 01/02/2013 06:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Fossil Found in Australia Older Than Oxygen What came first the fart or the stink.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7794073 the stink, cuz god can't lay a chicken --"In this era of great big brains anything that can happen will. So hunker down." -- Kurt Vonnegut, JR. -- Galapagos. |
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User ID: 31314745 Canada 01/02/2013 07:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Fossil Found in Australia Older Than Oxygen --"In this era of great big brains anything that can happen will. So hunker down." -- Kurt Vonnegut, JR. -- Galapagos. |