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The Oldest Evidence of Animal Sex Has Been Found, and It’s Mind-Boggling

26d 9h ago by piefed.social/u/solo in palaeontology@mander.xyz from www.404media.co

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossilized evidence of sexual reproduction and locomotion in animals at a remote site in Canada’s Northwest Territories that dates back 567 million years to the Ediacaran period, according to a study published on Wednesday in Science Advances. According to researchers, the finding pushes the origins of animal sex back by 5-10 million years.