1.75-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Are Oldest Record of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
The preserved structures show a process that gave rise to life as we know it.
By Isaac Schultz, GIZMODO, January 3, 2023
[gizmodo.com]

Photosynthesis Evolved as Early as 1.75 Billion Years Ago, Microfossils Suggest
Jan 3, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro. SciNews
[www.sci.news]

The paywalled paper is:

Demoulin, C.F., Lara, Y.J., Lambion, A. et al. Oldest thylakoids in fossil
cells directly evidence oxygenic photosynthesis. Nature (2024).
[www.nature.com]

Yours,


Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)