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    Chinese and American scientists discovered "leaves" on the bottom of the sea 550 million years ago

    • Last Update: 2021-08-12
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    Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, September 8th (Reporter Wang Jueping) The reporter learned from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences on the 8th that the early life research team of the institute, in cooperation with American scholars, discovered in the Shibantan biota in the Three Gorges area of ​​Hubei, China Four ancient creatures shaped like leaves


    Pang Ke, an associate researcher of the Southern Institute of Ancient Chinese Academy of Sciences, who participated in this research, said that the four newly discovered ancient creatures, which lived on the seabed about 550 million years ago, are now completely extinct


    What is unique is that these ancient "leaves" have circular suction cups at the bottom


    "Before 550 million years ago, these seabed'leaves' were a very large number and widely distributed creatures


    Relevant research results have been recently published in the Journal of Paleontology, an international professional journal of paleontology


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