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Nature 391, 529-530 (5 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35245

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Animal embryos in deep time

Stefan Bengtson1

Discoveries of spectacularly preserved embryos and tissues, in rocks that are about 570 million years old, open a new era in the study of early animal evolution.A spell seems to have been broken — animals considerably older than the Cambrian are finally being found in the fossil record, and they are preserved in a way that reveals details down to the cellular level.

  1. Stefan Bengtson is in the Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
    e-mail: Email: Stefan.Bengtson@nrm.se