Scientists reportedly directly dated 3.5-billion-year-old evidence of life for the first time

Dating the evidence of life directly

ScienceAlert reported that scientists directly dated evidence of life around 3.5 billion years old for the first time. The reported result concerns the age assigned to evidence of very early life on Earth.

The saved report does not explain how the evidence had previously been dated.

ScienceAlert reported the first direct dating of this 3.5-billion-year-old evidence of life.

The focus is the reported direct dating of ancient evidence of life. The available information does not establish the method or how it compares with earlier results.