Sentences with phrase «lineage of living animals»
New research led by the University of Bristol has resolved evolutionary biology's most - heated debate, revealing it is the morphologically simple sponges, rather than the anatomically complex comb jellies, which represent the oldest lineage of living animals.
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To the contrary, it is more fantastic than we can imagine — hundreds of billions (trillions) of galaxies with hundreds of billions (trillions) of stars, nearly all of which have planets, some right for life; planets so hot that they rain glass; stars made of diamonds; the lineage of animals from singled celled organisms to the incredible variety that exists today with their unique adaptations.
We know of only one lineage of primates, a little animal called Purgatorius, that lived before this hypothetical asteroid hit.
They push back the origins of the lineage and show that it evolved immediately after the end of the Permian extinction — the biggest clear - out of life the world has ever seen, when 95 per cent of animal species went extinct (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2010.1746).
Chemosynthetic symbioses evolved independently multiple times in at least nine animal phyla and from at least 12 lineages of free - living bacteria.