Neat News 2721 (added 2023-06-13)
New life form detected in billion year old rock
Some very old form of life has been detected in billion year old rock. The single-celled organism seems to have been adapted to an environment that contained much less oxygen than today's atmosphere. Around 800 million years ago there was a shift in life and it was displaced by other life forms.
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