Oldest Living bug
64Living Fossils in Shark Bay, Western Australia
Recently we travelled through Western Australia and got to see the oldest living thing on earth - the stromatolites. OK they look like black coral in the flesh, so to speak, and are in fact cyano-bacteria so they don't exactly make house pets, but these little beasties are pretty amazing having survived since the Precaambrian geological era - that's about 2.4 billion years ago! I remember studying them in geology and these unexciting looking fossils where the first thing to excrete oxygen into the atmosphere - so in fact they are the start for all life on earth.
They used to be a lot more common (not orignally of course having any competitors) but they survive in this remote part of Western Australia because Shark Bay is extremely salty which discourages most other life - we saw some tiny fish though.
This hub was inspired by JStankevicz longevity hub wanted to add the pictures so I just couldn't do a comment but I do think this is the oldest living thing!
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I love how this is the type of hub that catches my eye :)
The place blew me away - it was just so different - not very touristy, not very exciting to look at to be honest and just so weird to think this is what the world might have looked at all that time ago!
Fossils Rock! I've seen similar early lifeforms in New Foundland.
I can only think you are talking a foreign language
Interesting!
I love the photos. Did you take them? A very interesting hub!
Love it Lissie. That's an old bug - if that's the correct term.
Yes Hovalis - must admit to having taken those photos- I did a geology degree eons ago so the fact that these little criteras created the oxygen in the atmosphere that allowed you and I to evolve (with abosolutely no apologies to the creationists) I have always found amazing. And yes Mark Paleanotologists do call anything small and once alive a bug - a technical term not to be confused with a software bug - another technical term :-)
Quite interesting. I think I'm seeing the same ads you are (essentially). Fossils, fossils, Perth, fossils, etc. You hub is unloved no more.
Wow Lissie! Those are odd looking :)
Patty Inglish, MS says:
2 years ago
VERY interesting - I'd never heard of these before.