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Tiny 1.7-billion-year-old fossils could reveal how complex life began

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Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the extraordinary leap toward plants, animals, and other complex organisms. Solving that ancient mystery may also help determine whether complex life could emerge on worlds beyond Earth.

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Scientists have announced the identification of extraordinarily preserved microfossils, with an estimated age of 1.7 billion years, which promise to shed new light on one of the greatest mysteries of biology: the origin of complex life. Findings from ancient rocks represent a rare window for the period when the first organisms with more [...]

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ecotopical.com broke the news on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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