Complex Colonial Life Was Already Thriving during Cambrian Explosion

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Complex Colonial Life Was Already Thriving during Cambrian Explosion

Reconstruction of the Early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia living among archaeocyath reefs in shallow seas approximately 520 million years ago. Image credit: Zhifei Zhang.

Tiny colonial animals called bryozoans were long thought to have appeared tens of millions of years after the Cambrian explosion.

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