Gas bubbles found in hot spring deposits in Western Australia, dating back 3.48 billion years

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(See T. Djokic et al., “Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits,” Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms15263, 2017.)

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