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Deep-sea blob’s secrets to life’s origins

A microbe found in the muddy depths of the Pacific Ocean that looks like a blob with tentacles may hold the secrets to how the first multicellular life forms evolved.

Long before complex organisms existed, the world was home to simple single-celled organisms, archaea and bacteria. Between

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