It is estimated that the first life forms on earth were primitive, one-celled creatures that appeared about 3 billion years ago. That's pretty much all there was for about the next two billion years. Then suddenly those single celled organisms began to evolve into multicellular organisms. Then an unprecedented profusion of life in incredibly complex forms began to fill the oceans. Some crawled from the seas and took residence on land, perhaps to escape predators in the ocean. A cascading chain of new and increasingly differentiated forms of life appeared all over the planet, only to be virtually annihilated by an unexplained mass extinction. It would be the first of several mass extinctions in Earth's history.
Scientists have been looking increasingly to space to explain these mass extinctions that have been happening almost like clockwork since the beginning of "living" time. Perhaps we've been getting periodically belted by more space rocks (ie. asteroids), or the collision of neutron stars happening too close for comfort? Each time a mass extinction occurred, life found a way to come back from the brink. Life has tenaciously clung to this small blue planet for the last three billion years. Scientists are finding new cues as to how life first began on earth in some really interesting places - the deep ocean.
probably the turtles. while lots of people think its the dinosaurs scientist have proof its the turtle
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Birds and sea creatures.
Single cells
Stromatolites are one of the earliest known life forms; some fossils may date back 3.5 billion years - before Earth had any oxygen in it's atmosphere.
Cyanobacteria.
Cyanobacteria
cyanobacteria
The earliest ones still around are stromatolites, but there were lots of earlier life forms.
It was to hot for rocks to form
All land animals evolved from under the water. I would say fish and ammonites.
The prevailing theory of the origin of life on earth posits that it began in the oceans.
The earliest life forms were mostly different kind of bacteria and plants and other organisms.
The earliest forms of life were microscopic autotrophs that lived in the great prehistoric oceans. Living under the water protected them from the deadly UV rays from the sun, as at this point Earth had not developed a suitable atmosphere. This is true everywhere but Kansas, where the earliest life forms were Adam and Eve. Zing!
It was to hot for rocks to form
The earliest lifeforms that were found on Earth, were called prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are groups of organisms without a membrane bound nucleus. They are most commonly seen in the form of bacteria.