I love when that happens . . .
> Oldest Animal Discovered
> Microscopic, sponge-like African fossils could be the earliest known
> animals--and possibly our earliest evolutionary ancestors, scientists say. The
> creature, Otavia antiqua, was found in 760-million-year-old rock in Namibia
> anwas as tiny as it may be important.
>
> "The fossils are small, about the size of a grain of sand, and we have
> found many hundreds of them," said study leader Anthony Prave, a geologist at
> the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. "In fact, when we look at thin
> sections of the rocks, certain samples would likely yield thousands of
> specimens. Thus, it is possible that the organisms were very abundant."
>
> From these tiny "sponges" sprang very big things, the authors suggest. As
> possibly the first multicellular animals, Otavia could well be the
> forerunner of dinosaurs, humans-basically everything we think of as "animal."
>
>
> animals--and possibly our earliest evolutionary ancestors, scientists say. The
> creature, Otavia antiqua, was found in 760-million-year-old rock in Namibia
> anwas as tiny as it may be important.
>
> "The fossils are small, about the size of a grain of sand, and we have
> found many hundreds of them," said study leader Anthony Prave, a geologist at
> the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. "In fact, when we look at thin
> sections of the rocks, certain samples would likely yield thousands of
> specimens. Thus, it is possible that the organisms were very abundant."
>
> From these tiny "sponges" sprang very big things, the authors suggest. As
> possibly the first multicellular animals, Otavia could well be the
> forerunner of dinosaurs, humans-basically everything we think of as "animal."
>
>
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