No, they're not one of Australia's myriad sports teams. They're the only bits of earth known to have survived the Hadean period of over 4 billion years ago, when our planet was in the throes of birth. Mineralogical analysis of these zircons has forced scientists to reconsider an ages-held notion that Earth was inhospitable to life during its formative years.
Who'd a thought? Ancient rocks in Western Australia give creationists a slap upside their sanctimonious heads. Good on 'em!
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