Stromatolites - fossils of earliest life on Earth - may owe existence to viruses
Date Time Stromatolites – fossils of earliest life on Earth – may owe existence to viruses As the Mars Rover sets out to look for evidence of life on another planet, scientists back on Earth suggest viruses played a key role in creating stromatolites, our planet’s earliest lifeforms. Stromatolites at Shark Bay, Western Australia. Photo: UNSW Sydney/Brendan Burns It may pain us to hear this during a deadly viral pandemic, but life as we know it on this planet may never have occurred if it weren’t for viruses, scientists studying billion-year-old ‘living rocks’ say. In a paper publi...
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