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Ediacaran Fossils from China Rewrite Timeline of Animal Evolution


An assemblage of more than 700 Ediacaran fossils from the end of the Ediacaran period indicates that key animal groups -- including early relatives of vertebrates -- were already diversifying millions of years earlier than long believed.

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