"It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen or, really, like anything any scientist has ever seen."
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know, discovering a place millions of people already knew about seemed to work out for Columbus for some reason.

  • dpunked@feddit.de
    11·
    11 months ago

    Whats so revolutionary? Stromatolites have been found 3.4 billion years ago from Australia. How is this “unknown prehistoric world”… clickbait is all it is without much content

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      16·
      11 months ago

      It’s little wonder these strange lagoons remained unknown — to modern scientists, at least. While staying in a tiny high desert village (population 35), the researchers spotted hints of the lagoon on satellite images. They drove until the road ran out, and then traversed on foot, ultimately arriving at the greenish bodies of water.

      “In some places, we were sinking up to our knees in salt slush,” Hynek said.

      Sounds unknown to me.

    • Soulg@lemmy.world
      13·
      11 months ago

      According to the article, the ones in Australia were fossils but this one in Argentina is still living and active. So I would call that a pretty big deal

      • dpunked@feddit.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        Dude, while stromatolites are not common today, they are not unheard of. There are still some active ones in Australia, Peru and the Bahamas. Every single thing on this planet can trace a direct line from the first live when it evolved. Thus, everything on this planet has the same age. Even if a fossil could suggest that some organism has not changed much for millions of years, we can not look at the cells and their genetic makeup to infer if other significant changes have occurred not reflected by the fossil remains.

    • ooli@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      11 months ago

      You’re the only one saying it is revolutionary… your strawmen game is poor

      • Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        The discovery implied by the title would be revolutionary. That’s really not a hot take to say that the discovery of a world would naturally be revolutionary.

      • dpunked@feddit.de
        2·
        11 months ago

        “unknown prehistoric world” sounds like a major discovery. If the title of the article would have been “stromatolites discovered in remote lagoon from 1 billion years ago” it would not have implied that some new “world” was discovered. If by world we just mean unknown habitats, well voila, everywhere you look there will be unknown prehistoric worlds. Find a fossil of some super known, cosmopolitan species but in a new place, voila, new world yet unknown to men discovered. Idiotic.