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Special ‘Living rocks’ off Saudi Arabia’s Sheybarah Island offer glimpse of how life on Earth began photos

‘Living rocks’ off Saudi Arabia’s Sheybarah Island offer glimpse of how life on Earth began

  • Colony of living stromatolites discovered by KAUST team being hailed as a gift to geologists, biologists and environmental scientists
  • Geology professor Volker Vahrenkamp had set out to take a closer look at a phenomenon they first spotted on satellite images
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