Paleontologist, University of Oxford
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Placed the new fossils in the broader timeline of life
Drill cores from Australia's Northern Territory sat in a Darwin warehouse for decades before researchers dissolved the stored mudstone and found more than 12,000 microfossils. They are eukaryotes — complex cells nearly 1.7 billion years old, among the oldest ever found.
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