What is the oldest predator on earth?

Palaeontologists have discovered exceptionally preserved fossil eyes of the top predator
top predator
An apex predator, also known as a top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators.
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in the Cambrian ocean from over 500 million years ago: the fearsome metre-long Anomalocaris.
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What is the oldest species on earth still in existence?

Cyanobacteria

What is this? Cyanobacteria are the oldest existing species in the world. These bacteria are believed to be the Earth's oldest known life form.
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What is the oldest land animal species on Earth?

The oldest known living terrestrial animal is Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), originally from the Seychelles but now a long-time resident of the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena. He is believed to have been born c. 1832, thus making him 190 years old in 2022.
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What animal came first?

The First Animals

Sponges were among the earliest animals. While chemical compounds from sponges are preserved in rocks as old as 700 million years, molecular evidence points to sponges developing even earlier.
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What animals can live forever?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What is the oldest non extinct animal?

1. Sponge - 760 million years old.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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What animal has no red blood?

The Antarctic blackfin icefish is the only known vertebrate animal that lacks red blood cells containing hemoglobin. But the use of hemoglobin to transport oxygen through the body is actually a rarity among invertebrates, which rely on a variety of other pigments in their versions of blood.
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Which animal do not drink water?

The kangaroo rat's kidneys are so efficient that it never needs to drink water. It gets all of its liquid from the plants, roots, and seeds it eats.
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What was on Earth before dinosaurs?

At the time all Earth's land made up a single continent, Pangea. The age immediately prior to the dinosaurs was called the Permian. Although there were amphibious reptiles, early versions of the dinosaurs, the dominant life form was the trilobite, visually somewhere between a wood louse and an armadillo.
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What was the first human?

The First Humans

One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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How old is the world?

Today, we know from radiometric dating that Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Had naturalists in the 1700s and 1800s known Earth's true age, early ideas about evolution might have been taken more seriously.
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