Ancient oxygen discovery shakes up history of life on Earth

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 20:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Oxygen appeared in the Earth’s atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than thought, a study led by a B.C. scientist suggests, implying that revisions need to be made to current theories about how life evolved on Earth.

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