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  "id": 12928209,
  "title": "Study suggests animal life began 800 million years ago, earlier than fossils",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/study-suggests-animal-life-began-800-million-years-ago-earlier-than",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-08T18:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
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    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/archaeology/a-new-oxford-led-study-suggests-animal-life-may-have-begun-700-to-800-million-years-ago-up-to-200-million-years-earlier-than-the-clearest-fossil-record-and-possibly-before-snowball-earth/articleshow/134788319.cms"
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}