In 1956, a teenage girl by the name of Tina Negus was summering in the United Kingdom's Charnwood Forest with her family, when she noticed a curious imprint on an overhanging rock face.
The fossil at Charnwood clearly wasn't a fluke. As evidence of complex life prior to the Cambrian explosion, it was everything Darwin and his successors had been searching for.
While the discovery was causing a stir in the scientific community, Negus was unaware of the impact her curious fern fossil was having. Only in 1961 did sheIn 2004, she saw an interview with Roger Mason where he discussed his story of the fossil's discovery. When she reached out, he replied immediately. In 2007, Negus was invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the animal's identification, where she was finally included as a co-discoverer.
Like Negus, it turns out that several other people had noticed similar fossils in the past, although they had been ignored by the scientific establishment.macrofossils in Charnwood Forest and recognized them as possible Precambrian life forms. This means that the answer to Darwin's dilemma existed even before he outright voiced his confusion in 1859.
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