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New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian

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New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian
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The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside bizarre creatures with no obvious modern equivalents. There are hints that some forms of present animal life predated the Cambrian. But most of the organisms we've found in Ediacaran deposits have no obvious relationship to anything we're familiar with.
The complete absence of these creatures in late

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