The spectacular finds, publishing on 14 March in the open access journal PLOS Biology, indicate that advanced
multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought.
Not exact matches
Honing in on when
life on Earth
evolved from single - celled to
multicellular organisms is no easy task.
Sponges were the first
multicellular animals to
evolve, so the finding means all complex
life has a skin.
It took hundreds of millions of years on Earth for
life to
evolve from single - celled animals up to
multicellular animals to intelligent beings.
These fossils are approximately 2 billion years old and according to Emma Hammarlund they represent some very early
life forms, that maybe tried to
evolve into some kind of
multicellular organism, but didn't succeed.
[11] This episode marked the close of the Precambrian eon, and was succeeded by the generally warmer conditions of the Phanerozoic, during which
multicellular animal and plant
life evolved.