When do we see the major animal groups first appear in the fossil record? @morethanadodo
When do we see the major animal groups first appear in the fossil record? @morethanadodo
Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Professor Paul Smith, director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History, on the earliest evidence for animal life.

Part of 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 do we see the major animal groups first appear in the fossil record?

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