Most of us know that at some point in our evolutionary history around 600 million years ago, single-celled organisms evolved into more complex multicellular life.
But knowing that happened and actually seeing it happen in real-time in front of you is an entirely different matter altogether.
And that's exactly what researchers from the George Institute of Technology and University of Montana have witnessed - and captured in the breathtaking, time-lapse footage below.
The evolution took just 50 weeks, and was triggered by the introduction of a simple predator.
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