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'Mysterious' ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms
2017-09-14 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] 'Mysterious' ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms It lived well over 550 million years ago, is known only through fossils and has variously been described as looking a bit like a jellyfish, a worm, a fungus and lichen. But was the 'mysterious' Dickinsonia an animal, or was it something else? A new study by researchers at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, and the British Geological Survey provides strong proof that D…
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