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Earlier Emergence of Animal Life
Interesting piece here in the BBC Science section.
Sponges back to 650 Million years ago and apparently it casts a bit of doubt on the "snowball earth" hypothesis where the oceans were frozen during the Marinoan Glaciation. Read the article, it's interesting. :)
Sponges!
Sponges back to 650 Million years ago and apparently it casts a bit of doubt on the "snowball earth" hypothesis where the oceans were frozen during the Marinoan Glaciation. Read the article, it's interesting. :)
Sponges!
Tags: Animal, Early Life, Evolution
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Terence Meaden on -
That's very important. There's some clever geological science there.
It beats the known organisms of the Ediacaran Period by some 70 million years, as the latter seemingly appeared around 580 million years ago and flourished for about 40 million years. -
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