Date of earliest animal life reset by 30 million years http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628181725.htm June 28, 2012 The discovery was made by U of A geologists Ernesto Pecoits and Natalie Aubet in Uruguay. They found fossilized tracks a centimeter-long, slug-like animal left behind 585 million years ago in silty, shallow-water sediment. A team of U of A researchers determined that…