Microbes Set the Stage for First Animals

Saturday, April 8, 2017 - 07:11 in Paleontology & Archaeology

It is thought that animal life first arose during the Ediacaran Period, between 635 and 541 million years ago, but these organisms bore little resemblance to the animals we know today.

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