Scientists solve 500-million-year fossil mystery

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May 8, 2025, 4:07 pm986 ptsInterestingTop
A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists from Durham University and Yunnan University as something entirely different—a distant relative of sponge-like creatures known as chancelloriids.

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