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"Wrinkly bags": early deuterostomes from Cambrian rocks in China

January 30, 2017

A paper just out in Nature argues that fossils from the Cambrian represent early deuterostomes, The tiny organisms have mouths, and they seem to have pores on their sides--possible precursors of gill slits?--for excreting waste. Here is one popular report on the find.

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