567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life
Fossils discovered in Canada's Northwest Territories suggest that complex animal life, including movement and sexual reproduction, began 5-10 million years earlier than previously thought. These 567-million-year-old specimens provide new insights into the Ediacaran period and the evolution of multicellular organisms.
Researchers have discovered an unusually rich fossil site in a remote region of Canada's Northwest Territories, revealing new details about some of the earliest complex animals on Earth. The fossils belong to the Ediacaran biota, a collection of mostly soft-bodied organisms that lived on ancient seafloors more than 500 million years ago.
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