When Did The First Large Multicellular Organism Show Up In The Fossil Record?
When Did The First Large Multicellular Organism Show Up In The Fossil Record? Large, multicellular life forms may have appeared on Earth one billion years earlier than was previously thought. Macroscopic multicellular life had been dated to around 600 million years ago, but new fossils suggest that centimetres-long multicellular organisms existed as early as 1.56