Life on Earth learned to move 1.5BILLION years earlier than we thought as mucus from ‘slug-like creature’ reveals first signs of motion

SCIENTISTS have discovered what could be the earliest signs of movement on Earth. They found string-shaped mucus strands left by a slug-like creature crawling through mud 2.1billion years ago in West Africa. The strands, found embedded in rock dug up in Gabon, trounces the record for the oldest evidence of motion on Earth. Previous evidence […]