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Maroc Maroc - WN.COM - Environment - 30/Sep 17:33

Sea sponges may have been Earth’s first living creatures

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the very first living organisms. The identity of these first living things still continues to elude evolutionary biologists. However, a team of MIT geochemists believe that some 541 million-year-old chemical fossils embedded in sediment indicate that some of Earth’s earliest creatures were the ancient relatives of today’s sea sponges. The evidence is detailed in a study published on September 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Fossilized remains aren’t always visible to the naked eye....

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