Oldest water on Earth found deep underground

By Charles Q. Choi LiveScience, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 05/15/2013 10:06 AM PDT on LiveScienceA pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface.The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the ta....