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518-Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges Starfish Origins
Original: 518-Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges What We Thought Starfish Came From
A newly described 518-million-year-old fossil is prompting scientists to rethink how starfish evolved. Reported by SciTechDaily, the specimen suggests early relatives of starfish looked and developed differently than previously believed, forcing a revision of the evolutionary story of echinoderms from the Cambrian period.
Why now: Fresh paleontological research is revising the accepted evolutionary origin of starfish.
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