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Older than we Thought
Topic Started: Apr 21 2009, 10:30 AM (314 Views)
Viergacht
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Trace fossils of tunnels made by multicellular algae show they existed 400 to 600 million years before we previously thought they had. Very interesting - does this mean life itself began earlier than we'd thought, or was there a burst of evolution?

Article here: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/04/21/2548658.htm?site=science&topic=latest
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I believe life remained at the level of algae and sponges for quite a while after its appearence, with only begining to become more diverse when ediacarians (or whatever they are called) appeared
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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https://www.patreon.com/Carliro

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