Welp. If this holds water, a lot of textbooks are going to have to be rewritten.

Researchers at the Jiangchuan Biota in Yunnan, China, excavated approximately 700 fossils between 2022 and 2025, revealing complex animal life existed between 554 million and 539 million years ago, at least 4 million years before the Cambrian.

https://ground.news/article/fossils-from-china-show-complex-life-evolved-millions-of-years-earlier-than-once-thought_44ce35

#geology #biology #paleontology

Fossils from China show complex life evolved millions of years earlier than once thought

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor. Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern China, preserved in exquisite detail, offer a peek at a time in Earth’s distant past called the Ediacaran (635 million to 542 million years ago). The discovery suggests that comp…

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@abesamma ooh wouldn't that be exciting. I'll be interested in seeing if it's validated