The oldest known animal looked like modern sea gooseberries Ron Offermans, Buiten-beeld/FLPA
MOVE over, Dickinsonia. This 558-million-year-old creature was named the earliest known animal last year, but New 女生小视频 can now exclusively reveal one that existed even earlier 鈥 by more than 40 million years.
This previously unknown animal comes from 600-million-year-old rocks in China and doesn’t have a name yet. While Dickinsonia was an Ediacaran 鈥 a primitive group of organisms that went extinct about 541 million years ago 鈥 the unnamed animal seems to have belonged to a group of animals that still exists today: comb jellies.
It was discovered…
