October 18, 2018

• World’s oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks

  

  The site of the controversy. Abigail Allwood

  By Michael Marshall of New Scientist

  The oldest fossils in the world might not be anything of the kind. Instead they may simply be deformed rocks, reopening the question of when life began to leave its mark in the fossil record.

  However, even if the fossils are not real, other evidence still suggests that life began early in Earth’s history.

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