stromatolites, the common ancestor of all life on earth

[petitfour]

Say hi to your great great great great great great great (okay it goes on for a while but I'm going to stop here, just imagine a lot of greats) grandparents. Well actually, say hi to their fossils:

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[georgiarepublic]

Why they wanna go and dig up my relatives. I'mma hafta sue somebody!

[drjon]

Or you could visit your great^great cousins at Shark Bay in Western Australia, where they have the only living stromatolite in captivity in the world...

[moonvoice]

I love living in this state. *grin*

[gemfyre]

First time I went there was... 1987 I think. Anyway, I wasn't so aware back then and figured, "I'll walk on the stromalites!" So I put my foot on the algae thinking it would be a thin layer on a rock, but that bit in particular was all deep and mushy, eww. I decided I'd stick to walking on the sand after that.

Of course now there are nice boardwalks and stuff so ignorant 7 year olds and adults alike don't get the idea to walk on the ancient organisms.

[kohda]

It's amazing that people can figure this stuff out. I would just stare at the pretty blue rock and wonder what I was looking at :o

[blotted_inx]

Seriously.

I still don't see it. /shame

[georgiarepublic]

On a more serious note you can find a whole bunch of neat information on cyanobacteria at the Berkely Campus of the University of California here.

It is actually quite interesting, and worthy of a separate post, but I am tired and have to go to bed.

[kandi_panties]

I cant help but wonder if we're going to get the evolution/creation/etc debate happening in here because of this? lol

Either way, I love this post; totally interesting.