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Author Topic:   FYI: Evidence of possible early colonization of land
Mister Pamboli
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09-09-2002 2:09 PM


TOny Prave of Saint Andrew's university suspects he has detected traces of bacterial biocrusts in the ancient Torridon sandstones, which would push back the colonization of land to over 1 billion years ago: much earlier than previously thought.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Life reached land a billion years ago

  
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