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Half-billion-year-old fossils rewrite the origin story of starfish SECONDARY_TEXT
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| The Yujingia fossils ... are thought to be close to the last common ancestor of ambulacrarians, the modern group that includes starfish, sea stars, sea urchi... | not found — this server looked at the page and did not find the passage |
| The fossilized animals ... preserve the body, gut and appendages, providing rare examples of ambulacrarians without a mineralized skeleton. The animals had t... | not found — this server looked at the page and did not find the passage |
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QUOTE {} | The Yujingia fossils ... are thought to be close to the last common ancestor of ambulacrarians, the modern group that includes starfish, sea stars, sea urchins and acorn worms. ... Detailed anatomical study and phylogenetic analysis of Y... |
QUOTE {} | 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 ca... |