BBC News – Earth’s earliest creatures dated from Welsh rocks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68005838

Researchers say the organisms – too primitive to be described as animals – are “completely unlike any other forms of life”.

So much like Llanelli then.

by TheOwlArmy

14 comments

  1. Another nail in the coffin for evolution.

    Edit: Wow, lot of humourless Welsh here this evening, cheer up!

  2. These are some of the earliest fossils discovered, not where life began. There are lots of fossils of similar ages and older, in other places

    As the article explains, these fossils are also found in Canada and these living things were in a part of the World that doesn’t really exist any more, not Wales.

  3. My Welsh fiancee is currently throwing things at me for my suggestions on what I could comment!

  4. According to Yma o Hyd (the one and only Welsh song I know), life began in Wales when the Romans left in 383 AD (goodbye Magnus Maximus!)

  5. They’re not even that old – I was expecting circa 3bn years!

  7. Is there a way to scan these rocks and map out the internal structure of these creatures

  9. >Researchers say the organisms – too primitive to be described as animals

    Ah they must have called in by Neath then.

  13. funnily enough the residents of rhyl haven’t actually evolved since

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