A New Picture of the Early Earth. Life, 4.4 billions years?

Geologists now think the planet soon became a cool place of land, seas and perhaps even life.The first 700 million years of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year existence are known as the Hadean period, after Hades, or, to shed the ancient Greek name, Hell.In the new view of the early Earth, life could have emerged probably 4.4 billion years ago

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