What was the first multi-celled organism to appear on Earth?

There was a time that the seas were populated by a weird multi-celled organism that looked like a fan blade. These "animals" were without predators for tens of millions of years, and predated the jellyfish. I vote for them.

	Parasyte -  6040 pts -  (2 years ago)
	Do you know what they were called?

	felixthecat -  4794 pts -  (2 years ago)
	I wish. When I read an article about them, I was fascinated by the thought that this "animal(?)" that lived all around the Earth was the highest form of life for tens of millions of years,

felixthecat -  4794 pts -  (2 years ago)

CHARNIA!!! "Sometimes Charnia is cited as a “metazoan of cnidarian-grade complexity.” It is named after the Charnwood Forest of England, where it was first discovered. Charnia is both the most iconic megafossil of the Ediacaran period and the long-living – fossils of it have been dated to as recently as 520 million years ago, 20 million years past the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary. So the duration of existence of Charnia was evidently as long as 90 million years."

Charnia is a fairly large plant species and could not have been the first multicellular organism. It would be more likely that is was a type of algae or bacteria as the first single-celled organisms were very small and lacked the ability to sudden evolve into a much more complicated being like the one suggested. First the single-celled organism would have had to go through a scientific theory such as The Colonial Theory or The Symbiotic Theory. It could not have possessed some hard body part. It is just illogical.

felixthecat -  4794 pts -  (2 years ago)

According to the people at "Environmental Graffiti": Multicelled organisms appeared. The first real multicelled organism is thought to be red algae, which appeared sometime during the Ectacian period. The creature has been found in fossils as old as 1.2 billion years. These first multicellular organisms had certain characteristics that have defined all complex life forms since, including humans. So you have hit the mark with "algae".

Now this question ought to bring some really interesting....unfounded religious guesses.....lol

But oddly enough it probably won't shake the stupidity off the people that believe the religion of evolution.

I'm guessing it wasn't the unicorn, potato, or chimpanzee.

Actually according to evolution guessing...'you'....yes 'you' were the first single celled, and the first multi-celled organism.
All the inferior mutated mistakes that your family history had before you are just 'you' being 'evolved'.

And if you happen to b deformed, retarded, or dog sh*t ugly....rejoice because 'you' are one of the chosen few that in a mutated state attempting to evolve something new.

	felixthecat -  4794 pts -  (1 year ago)
	How very sad to be you. Anyway, please explain, sanely, how evolution is a religion.

I understand that the structure of charnia was the earliest and most efficient structural network...and is why 'the design' is still in use in so many lifeforms... from plant ..to animal...feather...our own spines...anyone with more info relating to this..?

yes does anyone have any input about charnia...interesting facts...the most ancient and successful complex 'body plan'...
it's for a project...would appreciate feedback..

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