Medical News Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

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31 July 2019

Oxford University Museum of Natural HistoryBy Graham Lawton
MORE than half a billion years ago, this stalk-eyed minibeast (Isoxys auritus) cruised the seas in what is now Yunnan, China.
This remarkable fossil is one of 55 from the Chengjiang deposit on loan to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, most of which have never been seen outside China before.

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The fossils date back more than 500 million years to the Cambrian explosion, an evolutionary big bang that gave birth to modern ecosystems and all the basic types of animal …

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