Complex organisms emerged on Earth a billion years earlier than previously believed | Daily Mail Online

Complex organisms emerged on Earth a billion years earlier than previously believed | Daily Mail Online



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"1.56 billion year-old fossils from China were multi-cellular organisms
Four distinct shapes of eukaryotes were found in mudstone deposits
Researchers think they probably used photosynthesis for energy"

"WHAT IS EUKARYOTIC LIFE?
Every complex organism living on the Earth is made of eurkaryotic cells from plants to animals and even fungi.
These cells have genetic material that is bound within a membrane along with other organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts.
They are thought to have first emerged on Earth when prokaryotic cells such as bacteria began incorporating other cells into them.
They were thought to have first emerged between 1.6 billion and 2.1 billion years ago but may not have started forming complex organisms until much later."