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Window on the Ancient World

  • April 16, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Most common in Western Australia’s Shark Bay, stromatolites help us understand the ancient biosphere. That’s because even though the limestone structures are just 2,000-3,000 years old, the blue-green algae that make them resemble single-celled microbes from 3.5 billion years ago.

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