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Age before beauty

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Harvard paleontologist Elso S. Barghoorn liberated a prehistoric algae from the rock prison it had been locked in for the past 3.5 billion years. The freed algae had no immediate words for the press, although Barghoon claims it is the oldest form of life anyone has ever seen.

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