When did animals first evolve skeletons? @morethanadodo
When did animals first evolve skeletons? @morethanadodo
Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Dr Duncan Murdock, a research fellow at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, tells us when animals first started to biomineralize hard skeletons.

Part First Animals, an exhibition by Oxford University Museum of Natural History, running 12 July 2019–24 February 2020, telling the remarkable story of the origin of animals.

oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals
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When did animals first evolve skeletons?

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