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First Animals Arose in Lakes, Not Sea?

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  • 30-07-2009 9:56pm
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    Galvasean
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    Evidence is emerging that the world's first complex creatures evolved in lakes as opposed to the sea as had previously been assumed.
    a new study of one of the oldest known fossil beds has revealed abundant amounts of a mineral called smectite, which forms in salty, alkaline lakes—not seawater.

    Full article here.

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    Photograph by M. Kennedy, UC Riverside
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