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Fascinating.
"[S]cientists have confirmed that they have found the world’s oldest meal – in a fossil of an animal that lived 558 million years ago.
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Kimberella appears to have had a digestive system that was capable of selecting the sterols it needed to absorb into its tissue, while discarding the unusable molecules. “[...] That means that Kimberella already has this pretty sophisticated way of feeding.”"