As a group the protozoa are most primitive and are inhabiting the earth for about a billion and half years. Fossil forms of radiolaria and foraminiferans, half a billion years old, have been recorded. Origin: Pre-Cambrian Taxonomic Retrospect: Leeuwenhock (1676) first gave preliminary accounts of some protozoan forms after the discovery of microscope. Goldfuss (1818) […]