Two billion-year old fossils reveal earliest evidence of living locomotion

For most of the time Earth has been inhabited, life took the form of single-celled organisms that just sat there in lumps, or floated around on water currents. But now fossils found in the African country of Gabon have turned up the earliest evidence of life showing some initiative and moving around of its own accord. It now seems that life was mobile some 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2IhCD4e