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Pre-Cambrian Animals

Until recently the fossils of organisms that lived earlier than the Cambrian period of 500 to 600 million years ago were rare. Now a wealth of such fossils has been found in South Australia

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 204 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “Pre-Cambrian Animals” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 204 No. 3 (), p. 72
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0361-72