Tiny Wormlike Creature May Be Our Oldest Known Ancestor

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Tiny Wormlike Creature May Be Our Oldest Known Ancestor

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Mar 29, 2020

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The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago.

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Mar 29, 2020

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