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518 Million-Year-Old Fossils Look Like a Bottle of Tentacles and Animal Changes the History of the Starfish Lineage

Summary by O Antagonista
Four tiny fossils preserved in southwest China revealed an animal that doesn't look like any modern starfish. Baptized from Yujingia glutenotunica, it lived about 518 million years ago and combined soft cylindrical body with a crown of appendages. Yujingia emerged very close to the evolutionary base of the ambulacrans, group that today gathers...
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Four tiny fossils preserved in southwest China revealed an animal that doesn't look like any modern starfish. Baptized from Yujingia glutenotunica, it lived about 518 million years ago and combined soft cylindrical body with a crown of appendages. Yujingia emerged very close to the evolutionary base of the ambulacrans, group that today gathers...

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O Antagonista broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday, October 2, 2026.
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