About how many years ago did life on earth originate?

Most life on earth originated in the Cambrian period 500 million years ago. Cambrian is a geological era, also called Cambrian biological explosion, because a large number of creatures appeared in this period.

Life in CAMBRIAN is mostly primitive or unicellular, and all of them are aquatic, and there is no life on land. Among them, the famous representatives are trilobites, strange insects and strange shrimps.

The earth originated 4.6 billion years ago, but life didn't begin to appear until 500 million years ago. From 4.6 billion years ago to 500 million years ago, the earth was in an inanimate state.