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Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

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