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Animals were sharpening their senses long before the Cambrian explosion, ancient tracks reveal

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, paving the way for animal life to spread across the planet.

Animals were sharpening their senses long before the Cambrian explosion, ancient tracks reveal
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Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, paving the way for animal life to spread across the planet.

Originally published at Phys.org

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