Creating a New Domain of Life: The Scientist's Journey.
The discovery of Gabonionta, a new domain of life, was based on inorganic patterns in ancient rocks and not on any organism that ever existed. The name was never formally described as a scientific name, but only used informally in public presentations and press releases. The discovery of similar structures from 1.1 billion-year-old sediments of Lake Michigan suggests that the identity of these macrostructures remains unknown and their biogenicity is questionable.