Tiny colonial animals called bryozoans were long thought to have appeared tens of millions of years after the Cambrian explosion.

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A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years ago, has been identified from an exceptionally preserved specimen found near Québec, Canada.

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