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A remote outcrop in Canada harbors rocks that are at least 4.16 billion years old, researchers report June 26 in Science.If true, these rocks would be the oldest known on Earth and the first to ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.

In the intrusion, unlike the older rock that surrounds it, the two clocks tell the same story: the rock is about 4.16 billion years old. “Both clocks are giving the exact same age,” says O’Neil.