Word: microfossils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After scooping up some well-urinated and therefore ammonia-rich earth, he conscientiously lugged it back to his lab at the Union Carbide Research Institute in Tarrytown, N.Y. What he stumbled on, writes Siegel in Science, was a microorganism that may be the living descendant of a recently discovered microfossil that is 2 billion years old. He may also have found a clue to possible life on Jupiter...
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