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The secondary report corroborates that Yujingia preserved featherlike feeding tentacles and another appendage set interpreted as temporary anchoring structures. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 18616

Source: Half-billion-year-old fossils rewrite the origin story of starfish · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:f1da76e45bece5571bcc028306ead41a56ff9e3be90f29b8a10aa0de4427baf3

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The fossilized animals ... preserve the body, gut and appendages, providing rare examples of ambulacrarians without a mineralized skeleton. The animals had two distinct sets of appendages: one set of featherlike feeding tentacles that captured organic particles from the water, and a second set thought to have temporarily anchored Yujingia to the seabed, although it was likely capable of some degree of movement.

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aa34c1f8	SUPPORT	STRONG	1	yes

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