A recent study has revealed that the origins of a prehistoric group of sea creatures are not as ancient as previously thought. The earliest fossils of these creatures have been determined to be seaweeds. Experts from Durham University in the UK and Yunnan University and Guizhou University in Chin
A recent study has revealed that the origins of a prehistoric group of sea creatures are not as ancient as previously thought. The earliest fossils of these creatures have been determined to be seaweeds.
This makes them the only group of fossil animals not to appear in the Cambrian “explosion”, a rapid burst of evolution 40 million years earlier. New fossils of Protomelission from the Xiaoshiba biota, showing attachment of the alga to a brachiopod shell. Credit: Zhang Xiguang
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