An incredible discovery has just revealed a potential new source for understanding life on ancient Earth.
A team of geologists has just discovered tiny remnants of prokaryotic and algal life – trapped inside crystals of halite dating back to 830 million years ago.
Halite is sodium chloride, also known as rock salt, and the discovery suggests that this natural mineral could be a previously untapped resource for studying ancient saltwater environments.
Moreover, the organisms trapped therein may still be alive.
The extraordinary study also has implications for the search for ancient life, not just on Earth, but in extraterrestrial environments, such as Mars, where large salt deposits have been identified as evidence of ancient, large-scale liquid water reservoirs.
]]>Un equipo de arqueólogos turcos ha descubierto todo un complejo subterráneo de la Edad del Hierro con muestras de un raro arte antiguo debajo de una casa en el pueblo de Başbük (sureste de Turquía). El sitio fue originalmente encontrado por saqueadores. Aún así, los investigadores han logrado llevar a cabo una excavación de rescate y descubrieron que los restos son de la época del Imperio neoasirio, del primer milenio antes de Cristo.
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