Although there is ample evidence of the ancestors of green algae and seaweed first appearing as unicellular and primitive multicellular forms near the end of the Tonian Period, the first animals may have also emerged at roughly the same time. Studies of rocks dating to the Tonian and Cryogenian periods suggest that the first animals could have appeared between 800 million and 700 million years ago.
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