UI researchers learning about early life on earth, other planets
By Greg Kline
Sunday February 10, 2008
The News-Gazette
University of Illinois Professor Bruce Fouke holds a common branching coral, left, and a large crystalline chunk of calcium carbonate in his lab at the Natural History Building in Urana.
Traces left by long-ago bacteria and other microbes in the crust of the Earth are nowhere near as a scary as a toothy T-Rex skull fossil.
They're not nearly as easy to find, either, being on the order of microns, as opposed to meters, in size. (A micron is a millionth of a meter.)
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