New Zealand’s hot springs contribute to discovery of oldest evidence for life on land!
Life might have colonised land 580 million years earlier than previously thought – and this has also implications for the search for life on Mars.
Professor Kathy Campbell from University of Auckland is co-author of a paper published in Nature comms that pushes the evidence for the oldest life on land by 580 million years from 2.9 to 3.5 billion years.