Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered

Sciencedaily.com ^ | 07/01/10

[jerry557]

The discovery in Gabon of more than 250 fossils in an excellent state of conservation has provided proof, for the first time, of the existence of multicellular organisms 2.1 billion years ago. This finding represents a major breakthrough: until now, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) dated from around 600 million years ago.

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By studying the sedimentary structures of this site, the scientists have shown that these organisms lived in a shallow marine environment (20 to 30 meters), often calm but periodically subjected to the combined influence of tides, waves and storms. In order to be able to develop 2.1 billion years ago and become differentiated to a degree never attained previously, the authors suggest that these life forms probably benefited from the significant but temporary increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere, which occurred between 2.45 and 2 billion years ago. Then, 1.9 billion years ago, the level of oxygen in the atmosphere fell suddenly.

Until now, it has been assumed that organized multicellular life appeared around 0.6 billion years ago and that before then the Earth was mainly populated by microbes (viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.). This new discovery moves the cursor of the origin of multicellular life back by 1.5 billion years and reveals that cells had begun to cooperate with each other to form more complex and larger structures than single-celled organisms. Several research avenues now need to be explored: understanding the history of the Gabonese basin and why the necessary conditions were gathered to enable this organized and complex life to exist; further exploring the site to enhance the collection of fossils; but also comparing the history of the Earth's oxygenation with the mineralization of clays. The most urgent task, however, remains the protection of this exceptional site.

[wendy1946]

Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered

Bull****. The people telling you that are the same people telling you that the stegosaur, which American Indian ancestors called Mishipishu ("water panther") and which the original artists of the various petroglyph images you see of them e.g.

clearly saw in real life, died out 65,000,000 years ago.

By the same standards I'll probably be about 700,000 years old myself on my next birthday.

The basic hard, cold reality is that evolution and evoloserism and all of the fairytale time schemes devised to support evolution are dead.

[agere_contra]

Fascinating, thanks for posting.

[jerry557]

There is also a lot of sculptures and paintings from ancient times and all throughout history that show what looks to be alien figures, UFOs, and space ships. Do you suggest that is proof that aliens exist and have been visting us for 5,000 years?

[muir_redwoods]

Children in cultures that have never seen bears have nightmares about animals they decribe that can only be bears. The human mind can imagine all sorts of monsters; deoicting them does not make them real.

[tlb]

The Indian image seems to me to be more likely a buffalo type animal. You don't offer a date for the image but a post-Spanish Texas Longhorn seems possible too. Here is an image of a Stegosaurus. Note, no head horns and a very small head. I presume you call it a Stegosaurus based on the bumps along the back. No idea what the artist meant them to be, but Stegosaurus dorsal plates were huge relative to the head, as you can see. The drawn horns are not Stegosaurus tailspikes since you can see the feet are clearly pointed toward the head and horns. Yet another problem is if there were dinosaurs in historical times, where are the fossils ? In nearly two centuries of archaeology, somebody should have found something so odd and out of place.

[Paradox]

Dude, a stegosaurus? I think this drawing was most likely the result of peyote.

[muawiyah]

Looks like an elephant with bristly hair running down its back.

Hmm ~ now where have we seen that before?

[NativeSon]

Yet another problem is if there were dinosaurs in historical times, where are the fossils ?

The general consensus on fossilization is that it is quite rare and dependent on multiple environmental and geologic conditions to play together in specific ways. It also takes a long time in human scale

[James C. Bennett]

Looks like a caveman's interpretation of an alligator.

[whattajoke]

Guys,

Just to give you some perspective, Wendy1946 is the infamous nutter Ted Holden. Yes, he most certainly believes in UFO's and aliens and Jesus-riding-dino scenarios. And those are his more "normal" revelations. he's been banned from FR numerous times, but is continually allowed to return with new monikers.

Enjoy his website.

[wendy1946]

Amerind oral traditions describe the water panther as having a sawblade back, red fur, and a spiked tail, i.e. a stegosaur as the image shows. Try doing google searches on ‘dinosaur’ and ‘petroglyphs’. It’s a growing field of research.

[Paradox]

It’s a growing field of research.

Kinda like Trutherism.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fred Nerks]

SAME CREATURE!

Underwater Panther, National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center

SOURCE

From AUSTRALIA. Two representations of 'rainbow serpent' in aboriginal rock art:

Fossil - PLESIOSAUR

I conclude the depictions of both the 'underwater panther' and the 'rainbow serpent' are the result of OBSERVATION. The creatures obviously existed within the timeframe of the exerience or memory of the artists.

[bigheadfred]

Think I otta ‘splain my theory of relativity and the time/space distortions caused by the influence of Singularities and that there is One present causing the warping of time as can be evinced (in and or to) by the mondo bizarro behavior of the POTUS?

Or should I just say that time is something that NO ONE understands, and Wendy really is 700,000 years old and in another 700,000 years when they pull that stick from the mud they’ll just stick it right back in?

[wendy1946]

There's more of that out there. In the age prior to the present internet age establishment science types could pooh-pooh this stuff and call anybody wanting to talk about it names and get over that way but those days are gone.

The sauropod dinosaur petroglyph at Natural Bridges, Utah/

[tacticalogic]

I conclude the depictions of both the 'underwater panther' and the 'rainbow serpent' are the result of OBSERVATION. The creatures obviously existed within the timeframe of the exerience or memory of the artists.

Would you also conclude that griffins existed in medeval Europe?

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

No Helen Thomas pics yet?

[Fred Nerks]

and in China the smaller dino's were tame.