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What was the first living animal?

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According to a 2016 study, the bio-marker 24-isopropylcholestane (a type of cholesterol), has allowed scientists to determine that the oldest (and first known) animal on earth was a Sea Sponge, which was alive 640 million years ago in the Cryogenian period.

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