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Geobiologists propose that the earliest complex organisms fed by absorbing ocean buffet

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2009-08-31

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Virginia Tech. University Relations

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Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms -- living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago - were likely fed by osmosis.

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