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Living stromatolite mounds in the shallow water of Hamelin Pool at Shark Bay — Photo: Paul Harrison / USGS, public domain; cropped

Australian Curiosity · Deep time

What Shark Bay's living stromatolites reveal about early Earth

Hamelin Pool's rock-like mounds are being built by microbial communities today. They illuminate ancient processes without being unchanged survivors from early Earth.

28 July 2026 · 9 min readRead story →

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