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New signs of earliest life
Professor Van Kranendonk explains how his team have discovered stromatolites in Isua in Western Greenland, which suggests that life could have formed on Earth 3.7 billion years ago, 200 million years earlier previous evidence.
(Photo: Modern stromatolites, Shark Bay, Australia. Credit: SPL)
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