Stunning Fossils Rewrite Evolutionary History of Life on Earth

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It looks like a fern, but is actually an extinct animal (probably a Furca arthropod) stunningly preserved from 477 million years ago. Peter Van Roy.

Moroccan deposits from the Ordovician era look like a sort of Lost World. Species thought to have died out 20 million years earlier in the Cambrian era sit next to others that were not believed to have evolved by the time the deposits were laid down.