{"id":701422,"date":"2021-09-09T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701422"},"modified":"2021-09-09T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:05:58","slug":"500-million-year-old-fossil-represents-rare-discovery-of-ancient-animal-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701422","title":{"rendered":"500-million-year-old fossil represents rare discovery of ancient animal in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many scientists consider the &#8220;Cambrian explosion&#8221;\u2014which occurred about 530\u2013540 million years ago\u2014as the first major appearance of many of the world&#8217;s animal groups in the fossil record. Like adding pieces to a giant jigsaw puzzle, each discovery dating from this time period has added another piece to the evolutionary map of modern animals. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found a rare, 500-million-year-old &#8220;worm-like&#8221; fossil called a palaeoscolecid, which is an uncommon fossil group in North America. The researchers believe this find, from an area in western Utah, can help scientists better understand how diverse the Earth&#8217;s animals were during the Cambrian explosion.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-million-year-old-fossil-rare-discovery-ancient.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">500-million-year-old fossil represents rare discovery of ancient animal in North America<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many scientists consider the &#8220;Cambrian explosion&#8221;\u2014which occurred about 530\u2013540 million years ago\u2014as the first major appearance of many of the world&#8217;s animal groups in the fossil record. Like adding pieces&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}