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2 months agoOoo, drunk birbs!
Ooo, drunk birbs!
Their eye color is so light – it looks like they have googly eyes.
The full text of the “umbilical dirt” paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.
They’re harmless, neat things
Or, if you’re an entomophobe, TREE HORROR.
Here’s a paper about self-replicating proteins, and this one is about self-replicating clay crystal structures, and how they might have been catalysts for biomolecule synthesis.
I don’t know – but, if so, put me down as cynical or oblivious, too.