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SCIENCEMay 12 · 07:10 UTCSCIENCE DAILY

Stunning fossil discovery challenges the origins of animal life

Scientists have reevaluated 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil, revealing they are fossilized communities of bacteria and algae, not trails left by worm-like creatures. The discovery challenges major ideas about early animal life. The fossils have remarkably preserved cells and organic material still intact.

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