Earliest Organisms on Earth Built Their Biochemistry around Molybdenum, Study Suggests

New research reveals that 3.7 to 3.3 billion years ago (Archean Eon), ancient microbes relied on molybdenum -- a metal that was vanishingly rare at the time -- and even experimented with tungsten. The post Earliest Organisms on Earth Built Their Biochemistry around Molybdenum, Study Suggests appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.