The Cambrian explosion is feted as evolution’s big bang, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432550-700-the-weird-creatures-that-might-be-the-very-first-complex-animals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened
The Cambrian explosion is feted as the moment where complex animals burst onto the scene, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432550-700-the-bizarre-plant-like-animals-that-say-lifes-big-bang-never-happened/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time
How did animal life begin? A must-see exhibition in Oxford brings together the world’s best fossils from the Cambrian explosion to tell the story Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332430-300-fossils-of-the-earliest-animals-seen-outside-china-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion
More than half a billion years ago, this predator cruised the seas in what is now Yunnan, China. The remarkable fossil is on display in a new exhibition Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211804-meet-a-500-million-year-old-minibeast-from-the-cambrian-explosion/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…