Geologists have found in Mexico the filssil remains of a multicellular
organism which is believed to have
lived about 15 million years before
the oldest known.
The organism, resembling small
jellyfish, lived an estimated 590
million years ago, said the lead
researcher, Mark McMenamin
of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
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