An international team led by UCL scientist discovered a microfossil that provides a direct evidence of one of the oldest life forms on Earth. The microfossils that scientist discovered are around 300 million years old, according to Dominic Papineau, a professor at University College of London who made the discovery.

PHYS ORG reported that the tiny fibers and tubes shaped by bacteria that lived on the iron were discovered encased in quartz Layers in the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB). The NSB contains a portion of one the oldest sedimentary rocks that is known on Earth which likely shaped some portion of an iron-rich deep-sea hydrothermal vent system that gives a natural habitat for Earth's first life forms between 3,770 and 4,300 million years prior.

The scientist said, the fact that life began not long after Earth formed suggests it could also develop on watery worlds outside the Solar System at the equivalent phases of formation. But the other scientists in the field expressed of being hesitation about the structures were really fossils, and whether the stones that contain them are as old as the study.

However, according to NDTV, the researchers behind the new findings hope that their investigation is ought to be hold up to examination. Moreover, the structure that looks like the fossil microbes, the stones contain a mixed cocktail of chemical compounds are said to be almost certainly the outcome of natural procedures.

If the results are confirmed, the scientist will boost the support to convict that the organisms arose in a very early in the history of Earth and may find it similarly as easier to develop on the worlds beyond. Prior to the beginning the date for the history of life also implies that living being was developing when Earth would have been very hostile. One of the scientists said that the investigation of old Earth life can be a proving ground for the procedures that required to recognize the alien forms.

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