Please help this is a 7th grade science problem

What are some things that limit population growth?

Up until 1938, paleontologists accepted the idea that coelacanths (an ancient fish) went extinct at the time that they last appear in the fossil record, about 80 million years ago. but in 1938, a live coelacanth was discovered off the coast of south africa that was compared to the fossil record and found to be the same species what goal of science does this discovery represent

What did not occur in the proterozoic eon a)the oxygen levels increase greatly in the atmosphere,b)the emergence of the eukarya , c)muti cella’s eukaryotic organisms began to diversify,d)anaerobic bacteria kept thriving with more oxygen