Thursday, December 22, 2011

Chinese Fossils Shed Light On Evolutionary Origin of Animals from Single-Cell Ancestors

ScienceDaily -- Evidence of the single-celled ancestors of animals, dating from the interval in Earth's history just before multicellular animals appeared, has been discovered in 570 million-year-old rocks from South China by researchers from the University of Bristol, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the Paul Scherrer Institut and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.

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