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Where Animals Come From | Quanta Magazine

Molecular data indicate that the “Urmetazoan,” the ancestor of all animals, first emerged somewhere between 600 and 800 million years ago.

Early Life on Earth – Animal Origins

Sponges were among the earliest animals. While chemical compounds from sponges are preserved in rocks as old as 700 million years, molecular evidence points to ...

Where Do Animals Come From? - The New York Times

It turns out to be one of the closest relatives to animals. As improbable as it might seem, our ancestors a billion years ago probably were a lot like ...

First Animals | Oxford University Museum of Natural History

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The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular ...

All extant animals living today diversified from a common multicellular ancestor, also known as the last common ancestor (LCA) of animals or the animal LCA.

New Oxford study sheds light on the origin of animals

Animals* first occur in the fossil record around 574 million years ago. Their arrival appears as a sudden 'explosion' in rocks from the Cambrian ...

Origin of Animals - YouTube

This educational (non-profit) video was produced by Professor Drew Muscente for the Historical Geology course (GEO 130) at Cornell College.

Animal - Wikipedia

Evolutionary origin · Evidence of animals is found as long ago as the Cryogenian · The first body fossils of animals appear in the Ediacaran · Many animal phyla ...

The Rise of the First Animals | Scientific American

But recent discoveries from Siberia, Namibia and elsewhere show that complex animals actually got their start millions of years before the ...

The Evolutionary History of the Animal Kingdom | Biology I

While animal diversity increased during the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era, 530 million years ago, modern fossil evidence suggests that primitive animal ...

When did the first animals appear on Earth? We are now one step ...

This would have been during the early Neoproterozoic era. Despite this, the fossil record from this era only contains traces of microorganisms ...

What was the first animal on Earth? - Live Science

Some of the best information about early animals comes from fossils dating back to the Cambrian period, which started around 541 million years ...

Where our farm animals come from - Backwoods Home Magazine

Dogs, chickens, goats, and sheep have spread all around the world, far from the areas where they lived in the wild and where they were first domesticated.

Where Do Species Come From? | The New Yorker

Where do species come from? By studying crows, a German biologist has helped to solve a centuries-old mystery.

How Life Made the Leap From Single Cells to Multicellular Animals

Soon afterward, roughly 540 million years ago, animal life erupted, diversifying into a kaleidoscope of forms in what's known as the Cambrian ...

In Search of the First Animals - National Geographic

All animals–from corgis to Greenland sharks, from dog ticks to toucans to you–descend from a common ancestor. The fossil record of animals, ...

ORIGIN of ANIMALS - YouTube

Documentary about the origin of animals on Earth Music by White Bat audio https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio Thumbnail : montage from ...

eli5 where do new species even come from : r/explainlikeimfive

They come from old species. So for example, if hippopotamus are closely related to pigs that means that a long time ago there was some sort of animal similar ...

Where did animals first evolve on Earth? - Quora

Animals are a defined type of organism, they are the Kingdom Animalia, and these have evolved from flagellate protozoans, most likely.

The First Animals - SUNY Orange

The Ediacaran fauna is an assemblage of organisms named after the Ediacara hills in Australia where they were first found. Ediacaran fossils are known from more ...