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Earliest Organisms on Earth Built Their Biochemistry around Molybdenum, Study Suggests

New research reveals that 3.4 billion years ago (Archean Eon), ancient microbes relied on molybdenum — a metal that was vanishingly rare at the time — and even experimented with tungsten.

The findings may rewrite how astrobiologists search for life on other planets...

sci.news
u/DragonFromFurther — 9 days ago