Found last year but not yet named, the animal may have been one of the “comb jellies”:
MOVE over, Dickinsonia. This 558-million-year-old creature was named the earliest known animal last year, but New Scientist can now exclusively reveal one that existed even earlier – by more than 40 million years. (paywall) Graham Lawton, “Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found” at New Scientist
Note: They are described at New Scientist above as “carnivorous comb jellies” but all known comb jellies are carnivorous so it will be interesting to learn more about what that “earliest known animal” was eating.
Last year, we learned Intro:
A strange soft-bodied sea creature that lived over half a billion years ago may have been the first animal species on Earth, fossil evidence suggests.
The first large complex organisms – known as the Ediacarans – appear in the fossil record about 570 million years ago, just before the Cambrian explosion of modern animal life. Their alien body shapes have created confusion over whether they were primitive animals, other complex lifeforms like lichen or giant amoebas, or failed experiments of evolution. Alice Klein, “Earliest known animal was a half-billion-year-old underwater blob” at New Scientist 20 September 2018
Finding fats has been taken as good evidence that these ancient life forms were animals. The expression “failed experiments of evolution” is curious. Was the tyrannosaur a “failed experiment” of evolution? Or just something that had its day and is gone because the ecology changed after the asteroid hit and that size of predator just wasn’t a part of it any more? Keep the file open.
See also:Fats recovered from Ediacaran fossil, 558 mya, shows that animals then were “large,” “abundant”
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earlier complexity than predicted by NDT Darwinism deep-time dependent model and a lot of stasis over relatively long spans corroborates creation science thousands, not millions, of years.
reference: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B077Q4KB9V
a few notes:
Darwinists appeal to the ‘magic wand’ of convergent evolution, i.e. 27 independent evolutionary events of bioluminescence, to ‘explain away’ the repeated appearance of Bioluminescence.
Whenever you hear the words ‘convergent evolution’, or something similar, from a Darwinist, the Darwinist is basically appealing to a repeated miracle, not to any known scientific fact, in order to ‘explain away’ why the structure exists.
Convergent evolution’ (homology in unexpected places) is found to be much more widespread than originally thought. And again, this (similarity in unexpected places) falsifies the main Darwinian assumption that lays behind the entire theory of common descent.
Sooooooo I have some questions. A little bit of confusion for me. My question is in regards to the age of complex life being found earlier and earlier than expected. I thought that many evolutionists we’re trying to find complex life forms before the Cambrian explosion because it gives it more time to evolve?
Please correct me if I’m wrong. However on the same token how did those complex lifeforms evolve so quickly and it even shorter period of time.
But there is one nice thing about this. It puts to rest which came first the comb jelly or the sponge which is a big win for intelligent design and a huge loss for Darwinian evolution because I think the entire idea is, that it is ridiculous that it would devolve into a sponge
So little clarification would be much appreciated because for a while there I really did think that they were trying to find fossils of complex lifeforms and worms far before the Cambrian explosion to allow for greater time gap to save Darwinian evolution from the ridiculousness of that life explosion.
Besides that I’m going to celebrate with “suck it sponge”
“failed experiments of evolution”? Aren’t experiments performed by minds? Just saying…
Fasteddious- Evolution is said to be a trial and error process. The experiments are with each and every change.
It was little Billy’s first visit to the Natural Museum and it was just in time for the dinosaur exhibit. As Billy stood there gawking at T Rex, a security guard approached and a jokingly said:
“Don’t get to close. We haven’t fed him yet.”
Billy smiled, looked up and asked, “How old o you think he is?”
“65,000,011 years”, the guard proudly answered.
“65,000,011 years? How did you reach that exact figure?” inquired Billy.
The guard looked at Billy, smiled an said, “Well, he was 65,000,000 years old when I started working here. And that was 11 years ago.” baddoomp-boomp
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(HT- Reader’s Digest) 😎