Extremophiles and the Earliest Life on Earth
Apr 26, 2022
The new discovery that life may have begun on Earth very shortly after its accretion raises a variety of fascinating questions about the origin (and potential ubiquity) of life in the Universe.
A new analysis of one of the oldest rocks ever found now suggests that life may have thrived on Earth a mere 300 hundred million years after the planet’s accretion. If correct (and the evidence is pretty compelling), this is mind-boggling for two different reasons,…
