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A Chinese river bed reveals fossilised animals never seen before
Palaeontologist Allison Daley discusses one of the most significant fossil finds in the last 100 years. Shales in a Chinese river bed contain the fossilised remains of soft bodied creatures such as jellyfish and others that are completely new to science.
(Image: Digging up a Qingjiang Fossil on a bank of the Danshui River, near its junction with the Qingjiang River, Hubei Province, China, Credit: Dong King Fu.)
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