Sea and Air
But there was not only plant life on dry land, but also aquatic life in the sea, and life in the sky. So we read next:
God said, "Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky." God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
It is astounding to me that this ancient myth is once again spot on in saying that biological life began underwater. And this kind of life also needed to be self-replicating. And there were self-replicating life forms in the atmosphere too. Is it stretching the interpretation too far to think of 'winged birds' as implying insects as well as feathered birds? I am going to take that leap as a 21st century person:
"Animal life began in the sea, living beings that could self-replicate, and then there were the first living beings that could use the air too."