Firstly, I think that this headline is misleading because “hundreds of millions of years is very vague it doesn’t reveal anything. Also, I thought reading the article would provide more information, but it also didn’t give a specific time. it seemed like someone just gave a time frame but we don’t know if it’s true or not. In the article, words such as “previously thought” can be deceptive because they never told us what or how It was before. So, if we are countering it, how do we know what they are saying. we can’t compare anything. Perhaps it wasn’t millions of years ago rather it could be hundreds. Lastly this fossil they are talking about could be any type of fossil such as dinosaur fossil. They used fossil as an example to give as an idea of how long it has been but If they were more precise then it would have giving us an estimation of how many years it was. The headline was exaggerated.
Reference:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/life-on-earth-appeared-hundreds-of-millions-of-years-earlier-than-previously-thought-ancient-a6700841.html