In Australian rock of about 3.5 billion years old they have found a filamentous prokaryote.
There is evidence of life on Earth since around 3.7 billion years ago.
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We can't be certain that Luca was the very first form of life because there is limited evidence and uncertainty about the origins of life on Earth. The study of early life forms is complex and ongoing, making it difficult to definitively pinpoint the first form of life.
Fossil evidence suggests that life first evolved on Earth during the Archean Eon, around 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago. This era saw the emergence of early single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and archaea, which were the first forms of life on our planet.
Earth is estimated to be around 4.6 billion years old, and evidence of the first life forms dates back to about 3.5 billion years ago, in the form of fossilized microorganisms. This means there were around 1.1 billion years of Earth's existence before evidence of life appeared.
Evidence of Life - 2006 was released on: USA: 11 September 2006
Currently, Earth's neighboring planet, Mars is being tested for the evidence of life.
That is life itself.
There are no aliens known to exist, just a bunch of anecdotes, and no matter how high you stack anecdotes, they never become evidence. We hope there is other life out there, and we consider it likely. But someone has to be the first form of intelligent life in the universe, and there is no evidence that it isn't us.
When life originated on Earth is still a hotly debated in science. The evidence available was from already fairly complex bacteria. These bacteria must have evolved from more simple life forms but little or no evidence exists to confirm this.The first conclusive evidence for life comes from the Neoarchean Era(2,800 - 2,500Ma) about 2.74 billion years ago.However there is evidence that there was bacteria alive in the Paleoarchean Era(3,600 - 3,200Ma) about 3.45 billion years ago.