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World Service,1 min

New signs of earliest life

Science In Action

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Professor Van Kranendonk explains how his team have discovered stromatolites in Isua in Western Greenland, which suggests that life could have formed on Earth 3.7 billion years ago, 200 million years earlier previous evidence. (Photo: Modern stromatolites, Shark Bay, Australia. Credit: SPL)

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