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  • These Squiggles May Be Some of the Oldest Fossil Life on Earth

    These Squiggles May Be Some of the Oldest Fossil Life on Earth

    Isaac Schultz

    A team of researchers in South Africa put a bit of rock under a microscope and found the remains of 3.42-billion-year-old life. Those fossils — the squiggly, microscopic remains of organisms that subsisted on methane — broaden the scope of what habitats were suitable for life on Earth during the Archean Eon.