Well preserved: An example of the 3.7-billion-year-old banded iron formation that is found in the northeastern part of the Isua Supracrustal Belt. (Courtesy: Claire Nichols)
Ancient organisms preserved in the Earth’s oldest fossils may have experienced a planetary magneti
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