Scientists have discovered that a well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals. Measuring half-an-inch long, the fossil worm — named Wufengella and unearthed in China — was a stubby creature covered in a dense, regularly overlapping array of plates on its back.
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Source: ScienceDaily