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World's oldest meal helps unravel mystery of our earliest animal ancestors

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The contents of the last meal consumed by the earliest animals known to inhabit Earth more than 550 million years ago has unearthed new clues about the physiology of our earliest animal ancestors, according to scientists from The Australian National University (ANU). Ediacara biota are the world's oldest large organisms and date back 575 million years.