3.7 billion year old fossils -- oldest ever?

[LadyStanley]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ils-may-be-the-oldest-signs-of-life-on-earth/

Scientists probing a newly exposed, formerly snow-covered outcropping in Greenland claim they have discovered the oldest fossils ever seen, the remnants of microbial mats that lived 3.7 billion years ago.

It's a stunning announcement in a scientific field that is always contentious. But if confirmed, this would push the established fossil record more than 200 million years deeper into the Earth’s early history, and provide support for the view that life appeared very soon after the Earth formed and may be commonplace throughout the universe.

Commonplace? Surely not.

(Or at least it might be interesting)

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