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Three billion years ago, Earth's life relied on a rare metal
- May 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum, which was incredibly scarce in the environment at the time. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to show that molybdenum was used by ancient life this far back in our planet's history.
Originally published at Phys.org