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c. 3.49 billion years ago, Pilbara region, Western Australia.

A shallow bay at low tide, just under 3.5 billion years ago. Over many decades, the actions of tiny cyanobacteria have created clusters of large dome-shaped stromatolites that represent the earliest macroscopic structures to be created by life. Today, this part of the world lies far from the sea, at a remote site in the dry Eastern Pilbara, somewhat inappropriately called "North Pole".

This image was created for the "The Big Picture Book" (Allen & Unwin, 2005)

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~Fluffysminion Dec 5, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Beautiful! They are facinating things, all the more so for being made by bacteria and you've drawn them amazingly!
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*Gogosardina Dec 12, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Yeah, I was inspired when I visited Hamelin Pool (hypersaline bay in West Oz that full of stromatolites, used as reference) - here is the pioneering form of life on earth, unchanged in billions of years.
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~Fluffysminion Dec 12, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
They're on my list of things to see before I die, when I first read about them I was surprised that they were still around, they sounded so odd I was sure that I would have heard of them before if they still existed.
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*Gogosardina Dec 13, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Western Australia is a whole "must see before you die" place - At Shark Bay you have Hamelin Pool with the stromatolites and wild dolphin feeding at Monkey Mia - then its only a days' drive north to Ningaloo Reef (Coral Bay/Exmouth) to swim with whale sharks and manta rays - then further north to Cable Beach (best beach in the world!) at Broome - with dinosaur trackways and croc-filled Geikie Gorge.
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~Fluffysminion Dec 17, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Sounds amazing!
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