What Was Earth Like 3 Billion Years Ago?

Written & Researched by Leila Battison. Check out her channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIk7euOGq6jkptjTzEz5kQ Script & video edited & by Pete Kelly. Check out his channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMq-bTjlaTZhaohEracnN6w Narrated by David Kelly. Check out his channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqoGR_EedlhKDVuWNwYWRbg Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza Artwork by Khail Kupsky Image Credits:- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanobacterial-algal_mat.jpg SIMS analysis of Primaevifilum amoenum, an Apex chert microfossil found in Western Australia, is interpreted to be a methane-consuming γ-Proteobacterium. Source: J.W. Schopf, UCLA. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/articles/2018/1/18/life-on-earth-arose-early-and-diversified-rapidly/index.html https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-642-27833-4_1866-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hills#/media/File:Quartz-pebble_metaconglomerate_(Jack_Hills_Quartzite,_Archean,_2.65_to_3.05_Ga;_Jack_Hills,_Western_Australia)_2.jpg https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-the-worlds-oldest-fossils-73802