Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

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Source: Kayley Hake, Nicole King lab, UC Berkeley

Researchers have now found an unusual creature lurking in the shallows of Mono Lake — a choanoflagellate that could tell scientists about the origin of animals more than 650 million years ago.

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