Benjamin Nettersheim, one of the lead authors of the study, examines ultra-high-resolution elemental and molecular maps of 1.64 billion years-old rock samples analyzed at the Geobiomolecular Imaging Laboratory at MARUM. (IMAGE)

MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

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