Moderni Cyanobakteeri-algal matto. Vieananmeri, Venäjä kuva Aleksey Nagovitsyn via wikimedia |
The fossil is the remains of what once was a purple-and-green slimy, smelly mat of single cell microbes that worked, lived and even communicated together in what is an awful lot like a prehistoric microscopic society. Nora Noffke of Old Dominion University in Virginia found the remnants of this life in sandstone rock in western Australia.
This is likely an ancestor of ours, researchers said.
This tiny fossilized mat, about one-third of an inch thick, would be about 300 million years older than previous complete ancient fossils and about the same age as less complete and still debatable fossils, said study co-author Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington. He said life on the mat probably had turned sunlight into energy, but unlike life now, probably producing "horribly smelly" sulfur instead of oxygen.
The research was published online last week in the journal Astrobiology.
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Mitä ovat mikrobit eli mikro-organismit
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1680) Boerhaave museo, Leiden kuva wikimedia |
Mikrobi eli mikro-organismi (kreikan μικρός, mikros, "pieni" ja ὀργανισμός, organismós, "organismi") on mikroskooppisen pieni yksisoluinen tai monisoluinen eliö.
Mikrobiologian isä, hollantilainen Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), havaitsi ne ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 1675 itse rakentamallaan mikroskoopilla.kutsuen niitä nimellä animalclues. Samainen etevä linssien hioja näki myös ensimmäisenä ihmisenä mm. bakteerin, lihaksen säikeitä ja veren liikkeen hiussuonissa.
Mikrobien luokittelu
Mikrobiologia määrittelee useita mikrobien lajeja:
Microorganisms are very diverse; they include all of the prokaryotes, namely the bacteria and archaea; and various forms of eukaryotes, comprising the protozoa, fungi, algae, microscopic plants (green algae), and animals such as rotifers and planarians.Muistamme, että eukaryotes sisältävät tumallisia soluja.
Some microbiologists also classify viruses as microorganisms, but others consider these as nonliving.
Most microorganisms are microscopic, but there are some like Thiomargarita namibiensis, which are macroscopic and visible to the naked eye.
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Mikrobi eläin, keltainen punkki Lorryia formosa 850x suurennos kuva wikimedia |
Australiasta tehty löytö osoittaa mikrobien läsnäolon maapallon elämän aamussa!
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