2007-01-02 11:37:08 · 14 answers · asked by curious d 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Nobody knows - the first life would have been unicellular and I don't think thats what you're trying to find out. If you run a search on the Burgess shale you'll be able to read about an amazing and relatively recent fossil find of sea creatures from 'the dawn of time'...
2007-01-02 11:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ocean has many creatures but i think that the oldest and first one may have been some sort of turtle as they date back very far and can live for a very long period of time. The first creatures in the ocean have probably became extinct millions of years ago. Before the human race, the world was completely different, and although many people only recognize dinosaurs as prehistoric creatures there would have been many more of different species of creatures, especially sea creatures.
2007-01-02 11:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by xMaidenx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible has a clear answer to this question. On the 5th day, God created birds and fishes.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:20, 21
As per this account, I would say the big fishes were the first sea creatures accompanied by all the other creatures in a matter of moments. In other words all sea creatures appeared at the same time.
2007-01-02 21:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by McPitta 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since life was in the sea long before there was any on land, the very first would be the very first life. The little that we know about the process would indicate the distinction between life and just chemistry was not a clear one early on.
The oldest life that left fossils however was a bluegreen algae that would grow into round lumps like loaves of bread, in shallow salty pools there isa remarkably similar bluegreen algae today found in some places on the Australian coast,
2007-01-02 12:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by Dragon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows for sure, since the prehistoric ocean creatures evolved from microscopic life.
2007-01-02 11:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first creature that lived in the ocean was the prehistoric trillobite
2007-01-02 11:38:46 · answer #6 · answered by andrew 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I presume you mean a multicellular creature...It was probably some kind of worm. The algae answer is sorta right, but it is a plant. BTW the biblical answer is a fairy tale - just silly
2007-01-03 05:53:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marge Williams.
2007-01-02 11:45:18 · answer #8 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bacterias. They are also creatures. Unicellular ones!
2007-01-02 11:54:59 · answer #9 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not entirely sure if they were the first...but horseshoe crabs have been around FOREVER! (think dinosaurs and before)
2007-01-02 11:44:20 · answer #10 · answered by sk8rgrl02631 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋