Billion-year-old, freshwater, multicellular microfossils reported from the Torridonian sequence of the Northwest Scotland

[Oxytropidoceras]

One Billion-Year-Old Fossil Could Be The Oldest 

Multicellular Animal. David Bressan, Forbes, April 30, 2021

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/04/30/one-billion-year-old-fossil-could-be-the-oldest-multicellular-animal/

 

The open access paper is:

 

Strother, P.K., Brasier, M.D., Wacey, D., Timpe, L., 

Saunders, M. and Wellman, C.H., 2021. A possible 

billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated

multicellularity. Current Biology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221004243

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00424-3.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350888013_A_possible_billion-year-old_holozoan_with_differentiated_multicellularity

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Strother

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited May 1, 2021 by Oxytropidoceras
corrected grammar

[DPS Ammonite]

Thanks, interesting article. The Graphical Abstract drawings are rather primitive, kindergarten quality.