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518-million-year-old armour worm could be ancestor of three major groups of living animals

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Recently, researchers from the University of Bristol, University of Oxford and the Natural History Museum discovered a well-preserved fossil of a worm over 518 million years old that could be the ancestors of the three major groups of living animals. The research has been published in an article in the journal Current Biology.