Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://ift.tt/2BGFRKd