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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.
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What was one of the earliest form of life?
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.
Earliest life form come on Earth?
The earliest evidence of life on Earth comes from fossilized microorganisms that are approximately 3.5 billion years old. These microorganisms are simple bacteria-like organisms known as prokaryotes. They thrived in environments such as hydrothermal vents and shallow seas.
What was the earliest form of all life?
Cyanobacteria.
Among the earliest life forms on earth?
Cyanobacteria
Among the earliest life-forms on Earth?
cyanobacteria
What is The earliest life forms on earth lived?
The earliest ones still around are stromatolites, but there were lots of earlier life forms.
A life-form in the Precambrian time was?
One example of a life-form in the Precambrian time was cyanobacteria, which are ancient photosynthetic bacteria thought to be one of the earliest forms of life on Earth. Cyanobacteria played a crucial role in the Great Oxygenation Event by producing oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis, which significantly altered Earth's atmosphere.
What was the earliest form of multicelluar life on earth?
All land animals evolved from under the water. I would say fish and ammonites.
Did the earliest life forms of earth live on land or water or air?
The prevailing theory of the origin of life on earth posits that it began in the oceans.
The earliest life forms on earth lived where?
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!
Why have paleontologist not found any rocks from the earliest years of Earth?
It was to hot for rocks to form
What were the earliest lifeforms on earth like?
The earliest lifeforms on Earth were likely single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and archaea. These organisms were simple in structure and relied on primitive forms of metabolism to survive. Over time, they evolved into more complex life forms.
