Science breakthrough as experts discover origins of sex in 567-million-year-old creature
Susanna Siddell
Scientists have discovered the origins of sexual reproduction trace back to a 567-million-year-old sea creature. Over in Canada, a remarkable fossil discovery in Canada has shaken up the timeline of when complex organisms first began mating. Researchers from the American Museum of Natural History in New York announced the find "pushes back the origins of sexual reproduction by five to 10 million years". These ancient creatures, which lived on the seabed shortly after Earth's first complex animal