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1.6-billion-year-old steroid fossils hint at a lost world of microbial life (www.sciencenews.org)
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Wild. I for one would not have guessed that we could detect even moderately complex organic molecules from 1.6 billion years ago.

[Image description: Geochemist Jochen Brocks and colleagues report they discovered the earliest molecular footprints of eukaryotes, dating back 1.6 billion years, in this Barney Creek rock formation in northern Australia.]

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[โ€“] king_dead@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

The world of microfossils is fucking wild. It still blows my mind we found any of em

[โ€“] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Those microbes must be jacked.