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Multicellular Life Began 1.5 Billion Years Earlier than Thought
“The preservation of fossilized tracks, or trace fossils, suggests that multicellular organisms that could move around to reach food resources may already have existed 2.1 billion years ago, more than 1.5 billion years older than previously thought,” said University of Alberta’s Professor Kurt Konhauser, co-author of the study. The trace fossils were found at the site of Franceville in the Haut-Ogooué Province of Gabon, Africa.
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That's just astounding.