MEXICO: A study published in the journal Nature, has revealed that a complex organism known as rangeomorphs, was the earliest example of reproduction and procreation among complex organisms; and that it lived about 565 million years ago during the Ediacaran period, just before the Cambrian era.
Rangeomorphs have a soft-bodied, fernlike appearance, and they grow up to 6.5 feet or 2 meters in length, even though most of them happened to be around 4 inches or 10 centimeters in length. They thrived in the oceans back in those early days of earth’s formation.
This creature never appeared to move around, and it lacked a mouth or any specialized organ. But it seemed to absorb nutrients from the surrounding water. But according to researchers, the rangeomorph colonized a new neighborhood after sending forth an advance party to scout out a suitable area.
“Rangeomorphs don’t look like anything else in the fossil record, which is why they’re such a mystery,” study lead author Emily Mitchell, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Cambridge’s department of earth sciences. “But we’ve developed a whole new way of looking at them, which has helped us understand them a lot better — most interestingly, how they reproduced.”
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