Cambrian Fossil Trove Finds 90 New Species Surviving Deep Waters After Mass Extinction
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China’s Huayuan biota from about 512 million years ago yielded 153 species, with roughly 90 new to science. The fossils show soft-bodied anatomy (gills, guts, eyes, nerves) and include radiodont apex predators, indicating deep-water ecosystems endured the Sinsk mass extinction around 513 million years ago even as shallow-water life was decimated, revealing surprising Cambrian diversity.
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- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction Nature
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