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Oldest Fossils of Large Seaweeds, Possible Animals

Started by Tank, February 17, 2011, 07:35:26 PM

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February 17, 2011, 07:35:26 PM
Oldest Fossils of Large Seaweeds, Possible Animals Tell Story About Oxygen in an Ancient Ocean

QuoteScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2011) â€" Almost 600 million years ago, before the rampant evolution of diverse life forms known as the Cambrian explosion, a community of seaweeds and worm-like animals lived in a quiet deep-water niche under the sea near what is now Lantian, a small village in Anhui Province of South China. Then they simply died, leaving some 3,000 nearly pristine fossils preserved between beds of black shale deposited in oxygen-free waters...

Fossils of this age are incredibly rare as most organisms had a consistency of jellyfish or wet leather and thus only fossilised under very particular conditions. Fascinating stuff!
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February 18, 2011, 01:13:17 PM
Marvelous fossils. And worm like creatures? New discoveries all the time.
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