2.5 billion-year-old traces of life locked inside primeval ruby

Similar carbon isotopic evidence has been reported from among the oldest rocks on Earth. Along with fossil stromatolites, free-living algae, rare-earth evidence and oxidized iron (hematite) , It confirms that free oxygen was being emitted as early as 3.5 Byr-ago. There is no reason to doubt this anymore just to support a GOE theory.