Earth’s first animals may be 200 million years older than their fossils suggest

Animals seem to appear in the fossil record fairly suddenly, a little over half a billion years ago. Yet rocks can preserve ...
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Did Animals Exist Before Earth Became A Giant Snowball?

The first animals may have appeared hundreds of millions of years earlier than their clearest fossils suggest. A new study ...
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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than we thought

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived ...
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25 bizarre creatures you never knew roamed the Earth

Earth’s history spans 4.5 billion years, and throughout this vast timeline, our planet has been home to creatures so strange they seem ripped from the pages of science fiction. From ancient seas ...
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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought

Missing animals in exceptionally preserved rocks expose uncertainty in the fossil constraints used to date the animal kingdom.