Sentences with phrase «known multicellular life»

At 2.1 billion years old, this fossil could be the earliest known multicellular life form.

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There was an era called white earth which starts about 700 million years ago with alternating periods of deep ice sheets and then hotter warmer stages which led to formation of various kinds of crystals, and last and luckily we live in the period known as green earth, which started about 400 million years ago when multicellular life arose and wholly changed to biochemical breakdown the makeup of the minerals on the planet again.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

These specialized reproductive cells — familiar to us as sperm and eggs in humans — set the stage for complex multicellular life because they free up all the other cells in the body (known as somatic cells) to specialize for many other functions.

Before the cambrian explosion (nonterrestrian life) multicellular animal fossils are known only from Vendian which is after «snowball earth» times.