{"id":810,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/life-on-earth-began-1-5-billion-years-earlier-than-suspected\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","slug":"life-on-earth-began-1-5-billion-years-earlier-than-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/life-on-earth-began-1-5-billion-years-earlier-than-suspected\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on Earth began 1.5 billion years earlier than suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-07-30 13:01:04<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Complex life on Earth started 1.5 billion years earlier than thought.<BR><br \/>\nScientists had broadly concurred that animals first emerged on our planet 635 million years ago but a new study has found signs of a much older ecosystem in the Franceville Basin near Gabon.<BR><br \/>\nThe research has uncovered environmental evidence of the first experiments in the evolution of complex life and describes unique underwater volcanic activity after a collision between two continents.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the life forms did not become present across the globe at the time due to restricted water mass and hostile conditions that existed for billions of years afterwards.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Ernest Chi Fru, lead author of the research at Cardiff University, said: &#8220;We already know that increases in marine phosphorous and seawater oxygen concentrations are linked to an episode of biological evolution around 635 million years ago.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our study adds another, much earlier episode into the record, 2.1 billion years ago.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-07-30 13:01:04 Complex life on Earth started 1.5 billion years earlier than thought. Scientists had broadly concurred that animals first emerged on our planet 635 million years ago but a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}