Dickinsonia Fossil (IMAGE)

Australian National University

Dickinsonia Fossil

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Scientists from The Australian National University have discovered the have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of the earliest known animals, which potentially had mouths and guts.

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Ilya Bobrovskiy, The Australian National University (ANU)

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