The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

Warrawoona Group stromatolites (3.46 billion years old ... these fossils as the earliest bona fide fossils from the Archaean Eon. 7. Microfossils in Australian Apex Chert (3.465 billion years ...

from Archaean times onward, has left traces of hemoglycin in sedimentary carbonates and potentially has influenced ooid formation. In this paper we employed four different experimental approaches in ...

Both life and geological processes get their start in the Archaean era amidst a brew ... Mounded bacterial formations called stromatolites appear in shallow waters of the early oceans, and small ...

This paper will take you as far back in the climate record as is currently possible, to the Archean Eon, from 3.9 to 2.5 billion years ago (Bya) (Figure 1). Peering so deeply back in time ...

The Hadean eon represents the time from which Earth first formed. The subsequent Archean eon (approximately 3,500 million years ago) is known as the age of bacteria and archaea. The Proterozoic ...

The oxygenation event initially wiped out many of their competitors, allowing stromatolites to dominate the biosphere during the Archean eon, when life had just begun to bud. However, as life ...

The following Archean and Proterozoic eons produced the ... after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. There are microbial mat fossils such as stromatolites ...

Lee Stocking Island is one of them. The organisms are stromatolites. These structures that resemble rocks are one of the oldest living life forms on our planet. Stromatolites have been around for ...

From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. Press play for a taste of your new ...