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A forgotten museum fossil sat in storage for 64 years before revealing secrets about a mysterious gap in Earth's animal evolution. Scientists now believe an entire era of ancient life was simply waiting to be rediscovered.
A spiky fossil that sat unnoticed in a museum drawer for 60 years is rewriting what scientists thought was a dark chapter in Earth's history. The discovery suggests ancient oceans teemed with life during a period once believed to be nearly barren.
Scientists in China discovered a fossil of a creature that lived through one of Earth's earliest mass extinctions over 500 million years ago. The find proves that early life was tougher and more adaptable than we ever imagined.