cigar-shaped creature that lived about 520 million unearthed

Posted by Cash On on 2013-06-28 0

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A new fossilized, cigar-shaped creature that lived about 520 million years ago has been unearthed in Morocco.

The newfound species, Helicocystis moroccoensis, has

"characteristics that place it as the most primitive echinoderm that has fivefold symmetry,"
said study co-author Andrew Smith, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.

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