Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us. And it happened millions of years earlier than researchers thought, as FRANCE 24's Caitlin Brown explains in this report.
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How we came to be: Fossils rewrite origins of life on earth
France 24
April 03, 2026
09:06 GMT
Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us. And it happened millions of years earlier than researchers thought, as FRANCE 24's Caitlin Brown explains in this report.
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Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us. And it happened millions of years earlier than researchers thought, as FRANCE 24's Caitlin Brown explains in this report.
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