It’s a matter of life or no life. In a 2016 Nature study, researchers reported finding fossils in 3.7 billion-year-old rocks in Greenland, pushing the timeline for Earth’s first preserved organisms back 200 million years.
It’s a matter of life or no life. In a 2016 Nature study, researchers reported finding fossils in 3.7 billion-year-old rocks in Greenland, pushing the timeline for Earth’s first preserved organisms back 200 million years.
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