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<noinclude>{{Short description|Life events since the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago}}{{ombox|text=This template uses small text that violates [[MOS:SMALL|Wikipedia's accessibility guidelines]]. Please discuss solutions to this problem on the template's talk page.}}</noinclude>
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Axis scale: millions of years ago.<br>Dates prior to 1 billion years ago are speculative.
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The First Life-Forms on Earth were small bacteria, they started appearing around 3500 million years ago. Then Insects and More Advanced Sealife started appearing, some of these animals were annomites which sometimes reached diameters of 1 metre.
 

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