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Buried for 1.7 Billion Years: These Ancient Fossils May Rewrite the Story of Complex Life


Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen helped enable the evolution of complex life.

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