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First Multicellular Animals

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First Multicellular Animals

640 Million Years Ago (+/- 20 million)
Stable cell adhesion and tissue specialization

Organisms that consist of more than one cell took several billion years to evolve from unicellular organisms. All species of animals, land plants and most fungi are multicellular, as well as many algae. A few organisms are partially both such as slime molds and social amoebae.

  • Domain: Eukaryota > Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Porifera (sponges)


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