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Animals eating other animals seems like a tale as old as time, but it's only almost that old. Predation had to evolve in the Ediacaran period -- so let's look at early almost-predators like Auroralumina, Kimberella, Ikaria, and whatever punched holes in Cloudina.

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Sources:

Ikaria:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32412...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/...
Kimberella:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2...
Cloudina:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3515782

General:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.00899.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.0...
https://doi.org/10.1017/S108933260000...

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