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Amazing find. They actually visualized the fossil with a cyclotron - used for particle physics and generating powerful Xrays.
Here's a sketch of the little bugger. Not a plant, not an animal.
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Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time
A new study has presented evidence for life on land that dates back 2.2 billion years and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, and that landscapes of the early Earth were as barren as Mars.
A new study, led by geologist Gregory J. Retallack of the University of Oregon, now has presented evidence for life on land that is four times as old — at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
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Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time | Earth | EarthSky
I thought we were all descended from eels. I wish science would make up its mind. Facts shouldn't be such a moving target.
You might be descended from eels. I'm descended from that first single celled organism that was created billions of years ago.
Who knew this post would generate so much derp?
For goodness sake. Quit trying to make that a word.
How do you know you were descended from the first? Maybe it was the 10,000,000,000th single cell organism in so much as the process that was creating them could have created or destroyed many simultaneously if it was creating any at all.
Got a better descriptor? Idiocy seems so mild.
I am descended from Adam. People put a lot of faith in science, maybe too much seeing as how their knowledge is so inexact.
"Crap" works just fine. Or misunderstood teachings bought hook, line and sinker if you're felling mellow about it. No need to re-invent the wheel with a new lexicon.
Brace yourself.
It could have been both.
Perhaps, but scientists are the ones who would say you were wrong. You are descended from apes, no eels, no that thingy in the OP.
Perhaps, but scientists are the ones who would say you were wrong. You are descended from apes, no eels, no that thingy in the OP.
Once again conventional scientific wisdom is proven to be wrong. That is exactly why it would be stupid to change our energy policy based on the latest and greatest scientific consensus.
I thought we were all descended from eels. I wish science would make up its mind. Facts shouldn't be such a moving target.
The facts aren't moving. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. This creature can exist and we can all have a common eel-like ancestor.
Amazing find. They actually visualized the fossil with a cyclotron - used for particle physics and generating powerful Xrays.
Here's a sketch of the little bugger. Not a plant, not an animal.
View attachment 67150826
A new study, led by geologist Gregory J. Retallack of the University of Oregon, now has presented evidence for life on land that is four times as old — at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
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Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time | Earth | EarthSky
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