Fossil Record: Earliest Animal Life Gets Pushed Back 70 Million Years, Says Study
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 14:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Princeton scientists say they may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies; sponge-like creatures that were living in ocean reefs 650 million years ago. The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635 million-year-old glacial deposit in South Australia, would represent the earliest evidence of animal body forms in the current fossil record by at least 70 million years. read more