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

May 5, 2026 - 17:30
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Earliest Organisms on Earth Built Their Biochemistry around Molybdenum, Study Suggests
Early Earth. Image credit: Peter Sawyer / Smithsonian Institution.

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.

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