Full Professor
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Academic discipline: GEOS-02/A Paleontology and Paleoecology
Coordinator of PhD Programme in Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences
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Paleontologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved, 3.42-billion-year-old filamentous microfossils in a paleo-subseafloor hydrothermal vein system in what is now South Africa; the filaments colonized the walls of conduits created by low-temperature hydrothermal fluid; combined with their morphological and chemical characteristics, they can be considered the oldest methane-cycling microorganisms, most likely methanogens.
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