Before animals, evolution waited eons to inhale

Monday, July 25, 2016 - 15:01 in Biology & Nature

Time to smash the beaker when thinking about oxygen concentrations in water, at the time when animal life first evolved. Oceans stacked oxygen here and depleted it there, as a new novel model demonstrates. It may well toss a wrench into the way we have dated the evolution of the earliest animals.

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