Recent paleontological findings from the Xiannüdong Formation in China provide high-fidelity fossil evidence proving that Bryozoa (moss animals) originated during the Cambrian explosion, closing a 20-million-year gap in the fossil record.
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Cambrian Fossils Reveal Bryozoa Origins

New 500-million-year-old fossils from China solve an evolutionary enigma, proving moss animals (Bryozoa) emerged during the Cambrian explosion.