Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a ‘Dune’-like sandworm
A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life is thought to have increased rapidly beginning around 539 million years ago, in an evolutionary burst known as the Cambrian explosion. But the new fossil site suggests that some of…
