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he Earth existed in emptiness and silence
for billions of years. No creatures were
walking around on it, hunting, making noises or eating.
The only entities on the planet were bacteria and other sin-
gle-celled organisms. After millions of years passed with on-
ly micro-organisms, small, soft-bodied multi-cellular inverte-
brates entered the equation.
A great activity then began manifesting itself on Earth. A
large part of the globe was filled with marine organisms, each
one very different from that rest, many of which possessed
complex characteristics similar to those of organisms today.
These walking, hunting, seeing, feeling creatures dominated
the Earth. So different were they from one another that none
had the same features as any other. The differences were
so great that one could not be categorized with the oth-
ers.
It took a mere 5 million years for this enor-
mous variety to appear. Some of the species
then disappeared, leaving only their fos-
silized remains under the sea.

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