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Fossil of first animal life on earth may have been found in Canada - Hot Air
Aug 02, 2021 38 secs
She thought they could be significantly but only recently became convinced they were fossilized proof of sponges that existed nearly a billion years ago.

It wasn’t until the past few years, when she saw studies that described similar structures in much younger rocks — from a time when sponges were known to exist — that Turner felt confident in publishing her results.

But scientists using a line of reasoning called the molecular clock — where they analyze the rate of genetic mutations to backdate when two species likely diverged — say that available evidence points to sponges emerging much earlier, around a billion years ago.

I’ve done a little fossil hunting in Utah and Wyoming, though most of the fossils I’ve dug up there are only about 50 million years old.

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