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 & researched by Leila Battison. Check out her channel:-
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Video & 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-maso...
Matteo De Stefano/MUSE
Avancna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobo...
Oleg Kuznetsov - 3depix - http://3depix.com/ 3D Epix Inc.
http://www.ediacaran.org/fractofusus....
F. S. Dunn, C. G. Kenchington, L. A. Parry, J. W. Clark, R. S. Kendall & P. R. Wilby https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Avancna - https://www.deviantart.com/avancna/ar...
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/H...
https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Kimber...
https://toyanimal.info/wiki/Kimberella
Apokryltaros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribrac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribrac...
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/P...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://prehistoria.fandom.com/es/wik...
Spriggina ovata, South Australia. Image: Dr Alex Liu
Daderot - Own work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spriggi...
spriggina.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickins...
Aleksey Nagovitsyn (Alnagov