2015-11-06, 23:45
Complex skeletons evolved earlier than realized, fossils suggest
The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia suggest. The find is the first to suggest the earliest complex animals on Earth -- which may be related to many of today's animal species -- lived millions of years earlier than was previously known.![](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/~4/v7WKmEKTbFY)
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/science...091139.htm
The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia suggest. The find is the first to suggest the earliest complex animals on Earth -- which may be related to many of today's animal species -- lived millions of years earlier than was previously known.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/science...091139.htm