A recent research study has found that one of Earth’s earliest complex creatures, called rangeomorphs, likely reproduced in a two step process--by sending out “grandparent” biological material to set up a new colony, then by using asexual cloning to create interconnected descendants.

Scientists continue to decode the lives of ancient organisms including their reproductive behavior.
A recent study describes the strategy that was likely used by rangeomorphs which, at approximately 565 million years old, are thought to be some of Earth’s oldest complex beings. 
To settle new colonies, the fern-like creatures would reportedly eject b