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General => Science => Topic started by: curiosityandthecat on June 19, 2009, 06:01:25 PM

Title: Oldest Multicellular Life Found
Post by: curiosityandthecat on June 19, 2009, 06:01:25 PM
That's right, 1.6 billion year old algae holes.

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They look like little more than squiggles and pockmarks in the rock.

But they have been at the centre of heated scientific debate and accusations of fraud for more than a decade.

Now the controversy has been resolved by researchers including an Australian geologist, Birger Rasmussen, in an investigation into the disputed fossils that has resulted in an even more extraordinary find.

Professor Rasmussen and his colleagues have shown the fossils, from central India, are not only real, they are the oldest known evidence of multicellular life on Earth - the remains of algae that lived in a shallow sea about 1.6 billion years ago.

Full article here (http://bit.ly/3wRDR7).

Evolution whaaaaat?  :headbang: