We still don’t know what the world’s first animal looked like, but scientists say it arose roughly 700 million years ago from a soup of single-celled organisms floating in the ocean.
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“In Monterey it’s right there in their backyard, and they have all the equipment at MBARI,” he said, so they could follow individuals and track changes over time in great detail. “We cannot do that.”