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Paleontologists Solve Mystery of Spine-Covered Cambrian Fossil


Initially interpreted as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata -- a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil found in China’s Yunnan province -- is in fact a distant relative of sponge-like creatures known as chancelloriids.

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