Discovered fossils, which are about 3.7 billion years.
A group of scientists have discovered in Greenland fossils, which may be the oldest trace of life on Earth. According to experts, made the discovery about 3.7 billion years.
The researchers detected tiny protrusions on the rocks, in size from one to four inches, are fossilized colonies of bacteria – stromatolites.
If find will be a random natural formation and the assumption of scientists confirmed that these fossils are prinny the world’s oldest remnants of life.
“This indicates that the Earth is 3.7 billion years ago were no longer hell. It was a place where he could flourish life,” said one of the researchers, Allen Nutman.
It is known that up to the present time the most ancient fossils of this kind are fossils found in Australia. Scientists say that their age – 220 million years.
According to the generally accepted theory, the Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago. The assumption about the origin of life 4 billion years ago, after the bombing of the planet by asteroids, scientists have expressed previously.
