The start of complex life on Earth pushed back by 750M years
cosmosmagazine.com
cosmosmagazine.com
Civilization has been pushed back too with stuff like Gobekli Tepe. If I had to make a bet I'd say there's probably a lot of far older stuff out there, some of which might not be discovered due to destruction during the end of the last ice age or simply having been built in temperate climates instead of desert or near-desert. Agriculture and permanent settlement and systems of governance were probably discovered multiple times in multiple places.
It's a trend in space too with better and better telescopes. The further we look, the more we see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-webb-delivers-deepe...
Webb sees galaxies earlier than they should be, and more of them than it should see.
The universe is huge in both time and space, much larger than we would have imagined even 50-100 years ago.
It's biiiiiiiiig maaaaaaan... bubble bubble...
we know nothing really and the same applies when we look at the smallest particle, the further we look the more we see how subatomic particles keep coming up.
which makes me think.....the systems been designed in a way it was never really for us to be able to understand no matter what we do
If you google for "francevillian biota" or "stirling biota" you'll find some freely-available PDFs describing what might be multi-cellular life's fossils in africa and australia.
There's also https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11500 "Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China"
I'm kind of hoping that paleontologists decide there was multi-cellular life on earth which got wiped out by the Snowball Earth Marinoan and Sturtian global glaciations.