Community of stem group eukaryotes (IMAGE)

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

Community of stem group eukaryotes

Caption

Artist’s imagination of an assemblage of primordial eukaryotic organisms of the ‘Protosterol Biota’ inhabiting a bacterial mat on the ocean floor. Based on molecular fossils, organisms of the Protosterol Biota lived in the oceans about 1.6 to 1.0 billion years ago and are our earliest known ancestors (credit: Orchestrated in MidJourney by TA 2023).

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Orchestrated in MidJourney by TA 2023

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