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Extraordinary 507-Million-Year-Old Creatures From the Grand Canyon

A jaw-dropping fossil cache was found in the Grand Canyon. In a 2023 expedition along the Colorado River, paleontologists led by the University of Cambridge uncovered a trove of soft-bodied Cambrian fossils.  These were found primarily from an oxygen- and nutrient-balanced environment the team calls an evolutionary “Goldilocks zone”. These rare finds include snails, crustaceans,

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