Yorkicystis, the 500 million-year-old relative of starfish that could tell us how early life evolved - ZME Science

It's one of the earliest complex life forms that scientists have found.

Reconstruction of the prehistoric Yorkicystis haefneri adapted from fossil evidence, created by Hugo Salais (Metazoa Studio). Samuel Zamora, CC BY-ND. After four years of digging for fossils in a ch… [+6707 chars]

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