Earth History

Researchers in South Korea have found stromatolites inside the Hapcheon impact crater, suggesting asteroid strikes created conditions that supported early oxygen-producing life.

18. februar 2026 Rapporteret af AI

Researchers at MIT have found evidence that some early life forms began using oxygen hundreds of millions of years before it accumulated in Earth's atmosphere. The study traces a key oxygen-processing enzyme to the Mesoarchean era, suggesting microbes consumed oxygen produced by cyanobacteria. This discovery challenges previous understandings of aerobic respiration's timeline.