Were These The First Animals?

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00:01 Intro
08:25 Part l - Discovery
17:00 Part II - Garden of Ediacara
28:03 Part III - The Earliest Animals?
39:40 Part IV - Life's First Experiment

Written u0026 researched by Leila Battison. Check out her channel:-
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIk7euOGq6jkptjTzEz5kQ
Video u0026 script edited by Pete Kelly. Check out his channel:-
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Narration by David Kelly. Check out his channel:-
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Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Image Credits -
http://www.ediacaran.org/charnia-masoni.html
Matteo De Stefano/MUSE
Avancna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobozoa#/media/File:Tribrachiidae.JPG
Oleg Kuznetsov - 3depix - http://3depix.com/ 3D Epix Inc.
http://www.ediacaran.org/fractofusus.html
F. S. Dunn, C. G. Kenchington, L. A. Parry, J. W. Clark, R. S. Kendall u0026 P. R. Wilby https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01807-x
Avancna - https://www.deviantart.com/avancna/art/Ivesheadia-lobata-165984887
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Holotype-of-Ivesheadia-lobata-Boynton-Ford-1995-from-the-Blackbrook-Formation_fig10_240674780
https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Kimberella
https://toyanimal.info/wiki/Kimberella
Apokryltaros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribrachidium#/media/File:Pomoria_corolliformis.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribrachidium#/media/File:Tribrachidium_heraldicum_e.JPG
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Pteridinium-carolinaensis-from-Rock-Hole-Creek-Stanly-County-North-Carolina-This_fig4_236000162
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pteridinium.JPG
https://prehistoria.fandom.com/es/wiki/Swartpuntia
Spriggina ovata, South Australia. Image: Dr Alex Liu
Daderot - Own work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spriggina#/media/File:Spriggina_flounensi_C.jpg
spriggina.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinsonia#/media/File:Dickinsonia_costata_Ontogeny.jpg
Aleksey Nagovitsyn (Alnagov