Weird Lifeform From 500 Million Years Ago Wasn't an Animal at All

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Weird Lifeform From 500 Million Years Ago Wasn't an Animal at All
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We've got a curious case of mistaken identity to report.

That's the conclusion of a new study of the 500 million-year-old remains, which took a fresh look atAs well as apparently setting the record straight, the findings again change what we know about the evolution of Bryozoans.

, the new study suggests – particularly in the signs of an external membrane that weren't present in the other fossil samples. "Where previous fossils only preserved the skeletal framework of these early organisms, our new material revealed what was living inside these chambers,""Instead of the tentacles we would expect to see in Bryozoans, we discovered simple leaf-like flanges – and realised we were not looking at fossil animals, but seaweeds."

The mysterious case of the missing Bryozoan fossils has apparently once again been opened. Why is this class of creature the only one not to feature in one of the most sudden bursts of life in the history of organisms?

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