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Life on Earth is pretty complicated these days, but it wasn't always so. The fossil record hints at simpler times, millions of years ago, when each organism consisted of just one cell.
The traces of one of these early complex creatures has just been unearthed in the South Australian outback, and its intricate design rivals all other fossils before it. Behold, one of Earth's earliest animals:body in foreground and the impression left in the organic mat behind. Note the mottled purple texture of the organism is a stylistic interpretation, not based on fossil evidence. (Quaestio simpsonorum.
And they found not one, but more than a dozen of these things, along with trace fossils – the imprints of their blobby bodies preserved forever in the now-petrified mat of microscopic algae and bacteria thatSome of these impressions show slightly offset outlines distinct from the harder edges of the animal's imprint, evidence that these were among the first animals capable of moving on their own.
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