Scientists say they have discovered an ancient lost world of organisms that lived when simple life began to evolve on Earth.
A group of scientists have uncovered the remains of an ancient lost world of mysterious organisms that are believed to have existed 1.6 billion years ago. The discovery hinges on the breakthrough detection of what scientists call “protosterol biota” in ancient rocks from Australia.
Scientists have been working hard to try to uncover the roots of how humans and eukaryotics are connected in what they call Earth’s “middle age,” a period of time believed to start around 1.7 billion years ago. This middle age lasted for a billion years, as simple organisms at the time began to evolve into more complex life. This newly discovered ancient lost world could finally give us some important information about them.
The researchers say that the discovered eukaryotes represent the “early stages of eukaryote evolution that did not yet possess a complete sterol biosynthetic pathway.” This makes them the “witnesses of an ancient lost world” of organisms, a world of ancient stem-group eukaryotes, which the researchers say were possibly more abundant in Earth’s middle age.
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