The earliest evidence pointing to when life began on Earth was discovered in 2017. This evidence was discovered in a rock in Australia in 2017. It was stated that the microorganisms found in the rock date back to 3.465 billion years ago. But studies of early life showed that this would not be limited to this number.
In the past days, the scientific world has made a new discovery. A new study by the University of London Academy (UCL) has announced that there is new evidence that micro-life on Earth dates back 3.75 – 4.28 billion years. The evidence came from an analysis of a rock the size of just a fist in Quebec, Canada.
Evidence of earliest life may have receded another 300-800 million years:
tubers shared what they found. After detailed examinations of the rock, the team came across a much larger and more complex structure. This structure was in the form of a trunk with parallel branches almost a centimeter long on one side. Hundreds of distorted circle shapes were also found.
Researchers stated that these shapes can be formed by chemical reactions, and that the tree-shaped trunk is most likely based on a biological source. The new discovery indicates that a variety of microbial life could exist on primitive Earth, potentially as soon as 300 million years after the planet formed.
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