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New candidates for oldest fossils

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Remains in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks hint at when cellular life arose, and how it powered itself.

Researchers have found what could be the oldest microbial fossils yet documented. The traces, discovered in 3.4-billion-year-old Australian rocks, might help to resolve the question of when cellular life arose, and how it produced energy.

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  1. Wacey, D., Kilburn, M. R., Saunders, M., Cliff, J. & Brasier, M. D. Nature Geosci. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1238 (2011).

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Sweetlove, L. New candidates for oldest fossils. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.491

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