On October 2nd I'll be in conversation with Princeton Professor Dr Adam Maloof, discoverer of the earths oldest known animal life. This will follow a unique musical performance by composers Lola Perrin and Alexis Kirke who were inspired by the incredible fossil find, and its
implications for science.
You can purchase tickets to this unique event here.
The event will be recorded and hopefully available online shortly afterwards.
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, London, NW1 7NL
Sunday October 2nd, 7pm
You can purchase tickets to this unique event here.
The event will be recorded and hopefully available online shortly afterwards.
An Incredible Discovery
To look at it's just a jumble of small sponge-like fossils that wouldn't be out of place on Britain's Jurassic coast, but uniquely they are a lot older than that, dating back to more than 650 million years ago. They were deposited during a period of time known as the cryogenian or 'snowball earth' - a hostile period in earths history, when for 200 million years, the planet was locked in a deep freeze. For great lengths of time the oceans were covered with ice, and temperatures were around -74°F. Few people believed that animal life could have existed before, or survived this period, but this new discovery proves that it did, and extends the history of animal life by up to 90 million years.“one animal somewhere must have survived so that it could continue on and eventually become humans” says Maloof. Read more on the Princeton University website
