Evolutionary oddball surfaces in Greenland. (discovery of fossil remains of creature from Cambrian period)

Science News | July 11, 1992| | Copyright

Paleontologists prospecting in remote northern Greenland have discovered the remains of a bizarre creature dating from immediately after the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the first complex animals. Shaped a bit like a spiny postage stamp, this exquisitely preserved fossil may help make sense out of the menagerie of strange animals created during that critical evolutionary stage at the beginning of Earth's Cambrian period.

Discovered on an expedition led by John S. Peel of the Geological Survey of Greenland and Simon Conway Morris of the University ...

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