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Forgotten museum fossil helps rewrite part of animal evolution
New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when paleontologists previously thought there were far fewer fossils than periods before…
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A previously overlooked fossil from a museum has contributed to a revised understanding of animal evolution. This discovery is significant because it helps to address a long-standing gap in the fossil record, known as the "Furongian gap."
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