Scientists may have misread a 2-billion-year-old clue about Earth

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Scientists have found that a famous 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, once thought to record a massive global change in Earth’s carbon cycle, may instead have been produced by local magma, hydrocarbons, and methane-eating microbes.

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  • Scientists have found that a famous 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, once thought to record a massive global change in Earth’s carbon cycle, may instead have been produced by local magma, hydrocarbons, and methane-eating microbes.
  • Reported by ScienceDaily and published Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:38:02 UTC.

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