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  2. Earliest known life forms - Wikipedia

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    The age of Earth is about 4.54 billion years; [7] [33] [34] the earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates from at least 3.5 billion years ago according to the stromatolite record. [35] Some computer models suggest life began as early as 4.5 billion years ago. [36] [37] The oldest evidence of life is indirect in the form of isotopic ...

  3. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    The earliest evidence for life on Earth includes: 3.8 billion-year-old biogenic hematite in a banded iron formation of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada; [30] graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in western Greenland; [31] and microbial mat fossils in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia.

  4. History of life - Wikipedia

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    The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...

  5. Timeline of natural history - Wikipedia

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    The geologic record is the strata ... a common sign of life, ... first appears in the fossil record. c. 66.038 ± 0.011 Ma ...

  6. History of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The Paleozoic ("old life") era was the first and longest era of the Phanerozoic eon, lasting from 538.8 to 251.9 Ma. [105] During the Paleozoic, many modern groups of life came into existence. Life colonized the land, first plants, then animals. Two significant extinctions occurred.

  7. This 2.1-Billion-Year-Old Fossil May Be Evidence of Earliest ...

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    About 2.1 billion years ago, a blob-like creature inched along on an early Earth. As the organism moved, it carved out tunnels, which may be the earliest evidence of a moving critter on the planet ...

  8. Ediacaran biota - Wikipedia

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    The Ediacaran (/ ˌ iː d i ˈ æ k ər ə n /; formerly Vendian) biota is a taxonomic period classification that consists of all life forms that were present on Earth during the Ediacaran Period (c. 635–538.8 Mya).

  9. 2 Zodiac Signs That Are Definitely on Their First Life (and 2 ...

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    As an astrologer, I must be real that on a technical level, your zodiac sign has nothing to do with this phenomenon. T 2 Zodiac Signs That Are Definitely on Their First Life (and 2 That Have Been ...