Oldest evidence of life on Earth found in 3.9 Ga Canadian rocks

[Oxytropidoceras]

Oldest evidence of life on Earth found in Canadian rocks

3.95-billion-year-old Labrador rocks contain graphite

that appears to come from living organisms

Emily Chung, CBC News, September 28, 2017

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/oldest-earliest-life-labrador-1.2503953

 

Oldest signs of life on Earth may be in 3.95 billion-year-old

rocks By Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, September 28

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/28/oldest-signs-of-life-on-earth-may-be-in-3-95-billion-year-old-rocks/

 

Found: Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth, Dating Back

3.95 Billion Years. The planet itself is 4.5 billion years old.

Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, September 28, 2017

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-oldest-evidence-of-life-on-earth-dating-back-395-billion-years

 

Yours,

Paul H.

[redleaf101]

Thanks for the share =)  You beat me to it =P

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/oldest-earliest-life-labrador-1.2503953 other CBC link

[Fossil-Hound]

This is really neat. One theory is microorganisms came from ice locked into asteroids along with other minerals and asteroids hitting the early formed earth was the catalyst for life.