The origins of life is one of the biggest mysteries scientists
have been trying to unravel for a very long time. While a lot of
effort is being directed to finding alien life, it’s crucial, at
least in my opinion, for us to understand how the first signs of
life spurred on our own planet. There are a number of more or
less accepted theories, that range from the primordial soup to
alien bacteria brought to earth via asteroids and so on. Maybe
we’ll never learn how life first flourished on this paradise
surrounded by the infinite darkness of space we like to call
Earth, since such an event might have forever been lost, leaving
no trace. It’s amazing, however, the kind of things we can trace
back though. Scientists for instance have recently discovered,
what they claim is, the oldest animal on Earth, uncovered so
far. Dubbed, Otavia antiqua, this primitive life form was found
in a 760-million-year-old rock in Namibia, Africa. There,
scientists discovered hundreds of such fossils, the size of a
grain of sand, and