1.5 billion-year-old Earth may of had water everywhere
What did Earth look like 3.2 billion years ago? New evidence suggests the planet was covered by a vast ocean and had no continents at all. They found clues about this ancient Waterworld preserved in a chunk of ancient seafloor, now located in the outback of northwestern Australia. Its rocky scenery preserves a hydrothermal system dating to 3.2 billion years ago and records the entire ocean crust from the surface down to the heat engine that drove circulation. It also showed different types of isotopes of oxygen over time. And the ratio between these oxygen isotopes hinted that at the time, there were no continents at all.
https://www.livescience.com/waterworld-earth.html
I find it interesting because when you said, "ancient waterworld" it made me think of Atlantis, it is also crazy to think that with our technology now we can see that far into the past about the ocean, but we know very little about the life inside of it.
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