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    Green algae were the first organisms other than bacteria to successfully live on land, around 480 million years ago. Fossils show that spores were present at this time, allowing plants to reproduce on land and escape ocean predators. Around the same time, jawless fish were the earliest vertebrates and included animals covered in armor plates that lived on the seafloor. Over time, jaws evolved in other fish and early sharks, giving them an advantage over jawless fish, of which only hagfish and lampreys remain today.

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    Green algae were the first organisms other than bacteria to successfully live on land, around 480 million years ago. Fossils show that spores were present at this time, allowing plants to reproduce on land and escape ocean predators. Around the same time, jawless fish were the earliest vertebrates and included animals covered in armor plates that lived on the seafloor. Over time, jaws evolved in other fish and early sharks, giving them an advantage over jawless fish, of which only hagfish and lampreys remain today.

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    480 mys:land 

        
    Green algae, which probably wash ashore by the tides, are the first creatures other than bacteria to successfully adapt to life on land.
    Fossils of spores, which are used in plant reproduction, suggest this happens at least 480 mya. While plants face many challenges
    adapting to land, they escape their ocean predators.

    480 mya: Fishes


    Fishes, which are simply defined as all vertebrates except those with legs, are members of the chordate phylum. As such, they
    display certain characteristic features: a skeletal rod called a notochord, a dorsal nerve, gills, and a tail. Agnathans, or jawless
    fishes, are the earliest fishes and the first true vertebrates. They are bottom-feeders, covered almost entirely in armor plates. As jaws
    evolve in the bony fishes and early sharks, jawless fishes have trouble competing. Hagfishes and lampreys are the only jawless
    fishes alive today

    The earliest known reptiles, Hylonomus and Paleothyris, date from Late
    Carboniferous deposits of North America. These reptiles were small lizard
    like animals that apparently lived in forested habitats. They are the
    Eureptilia (true reptiles), and their presence during this suggests that they
    were distinct from a more primitive group, the anapsids (or Parareptilia).
    The early reptiles were usually small animals and generally were not as
    abundant as some of the synapsids, such as the sailback pelycosaurs
    (Edaphosaurus, Dimetrodon, and others). Assorted Para reptiles occurred
    throughout the Permian Period (299 million to 251 million years ago), but
    they largely disappeared from the fossil record by the beginning of what
    was to become known as the “Age of Reptiles,” the Mesozoic Era (251
    million to 65.5 million years ago). Nonetheless, they reappeared during
    the Late Triassic Epoch (229 million to 200 million years ago) as the first
    turtles, the most primitive of which was Proganochelys. Turtles regularly
    appear in fossil records thereafter. Of the eureptiles, the captorhinids were
    present throughout most of the Permian. These broad-headed lizard like
    reptiles appear to have been agile carnivores of moderate size. They
    disappeared, apparently leaving no descendants, in the Late Permian, or
    Lopingian, Epoch (260 million to 251 million years ago). 
    Animals first appeared in the Ediacaran Period (about 635 million to 541 million years ago), soft-bodied
    forms that left traces of their bodies in shallow-water sediments. The best-known are coelenterates of
    various sorts, including some that were more irregular than any today, and there are several groups with
    unclear affinities. At least some of the latter groups probably left no descendants. Most of the Ediacaran
    animals were thin, with each cell able to diffuse nutrients from the water, and many may have
    photosynthesized with symbiotic algae. No sponges are known to have existed in the Ediacaran, but they
    probably had already arisen from choanoflagellate protists.

    The oldest known fossils, in fact, are cyanobacteria


    from Archaean rocks of western Australia, dated 3.5
    billion years old. This may be somewhat surprising,
    since the oldest rocks are only a little older: 3.8
    billion years old

    Water condenser in the cooling atmosphere, and


    heavy rains pour down on the planet. After
    several hundred million years of falling rain, great
    oceans form.

    In southwest Greenland, undisturbed volcanic rock 3,850


    million years old lies atop sedimentary rock. Within this
    deeper (and older) layer are minerals that contain telltale
    signs of past biological activity: carbon isotope ratios that
    occur only if life has been present. The act of piecing
    together plausible explanations of an event or discovery
    from the evidence at hand is known as inference

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