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Joel Kontinen
Fat molecules
attributed to ancient sea sponges actually belonged to algae, two new studies
suggest.
Hundreds of millions of years
ago, one of the very first animals on Earth died at the bottom of an ancient
ocean. In life, it was a humble sea sponge; in death, it had no bones, nor
teeth, nor shell to leave behind as evidence of its brief, bottom-dwelling
existence. But it did have fat molecules — or so it seemed.
Now, it seems that the 635 million-year-old sediment was filled by algae. And according to evolutionists, the oldest ,animal imprint was roughly 558 million years ago the fossil imprint of Dicksonian roughly 558 million years ago.
Source:
Specktor, Brandon, 2020, World's oldest animal fossil
actually came from rotting algae. Life Science 4 December.
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