foxnews.com/science/this-2-1-billion-year-old-fossil-may-be-evidence-of-earliest-moving-life-form:
About 2.1 billion years ago, a blob-like creature inched along on an early Earth. As the organism moved, it carved out tunnels, which may be the earliest evidence of a moving critter on the planet.
Until this discovery, the earliest evidence of motility — that is, an organism's ability to move independently using its own metabolic energy — dated to about 570 million years ago, according to fossils from different locations. That's a good 1.5 billion years younger than the new finding.
Whatever left the teeny, tiny tunnels was likely a cluster of single cells that joined ranks to form a slug-like multicellular organism.
[...] But not everyone thinks these tunnels represent the oldest proof of motility.
Looks like a slug or blob, digs tunnels. Could it be... El Chapo?
[A more detailed explanation of the science behind this discovery can be found at How the oldest evidence of movement could change what we know about life on Earth which was published in The Conversation. --Ed.]
(Score: 5, Funny) by Freeman on Monday February 18 2019, @10:41PM (3 children)
I've already got a whole plot lined up for the new Tremors movie, "Tremors Evolution!". Might be a little slow paced, though.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Monday February 18 2019, @11:06PM
No, that sounds great. I'll put it in my watch later list on Netflix.
I'll never actually watch it though, like almost everything in my Netflix watch later list.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Sulla on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:01AM (1 child)
DARPA geneticallyl modified modern graboids to reverse evolve the root worm. The goal is to go back along the evolutionary tree until one is found with a brain simple enough to control. There is only one man who is old enough, hates the government, has enough guns, and has been on the cover of fortune magazine enough times to take these worms down.
Michael Gross as Burt Gummer in "Tremmors 7: Old Enemies"
Plot twist is that Darpa got the project started based on files stolen from the Russians during the fall of the Soviet Union.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19 2019, @05:43PM
For a moment I thought you were talking about grabassoid Trump.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @11:52PM (1 child)
Is this what we're calling Rosie O'Donnell now?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:45AM
I thought they were talking about the Supreme Court fossils.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19 2019, @12:01AM
Mom? Is that you?