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A Strange Red Sea Discovery Could Reveal How Life Survived Before Oxygen

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A Strange Red Sea Discovery Could Reveal How Life Survived Before Oxygen
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New evidence from deep in the Red Sea suggests that chemical reactions involving manganese and iron may have provided energy for life in Earth’s earliest oceans. Long before atmospheric oxygen filled the sky or photosynthetic organisms harvested sunlight, Earth hosted a mysterious biosphere whose energy sources remain uncertain. Clues to how those primitive organisms survived [...]

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