The researchers have named it in honour of Sir David Attenborough.
Under Charnwood Forest lie some of the most important rocks in the history of life on EarthThis is the period in geological history that immediately precedes the Cambrian, which witnessed a great explosion in the numbers and diversity of lifeforms on Earth.Auroralumina
"This is the cast-iron evidence of modern-looking organisms in the Pre-Cambrian. That means the fuse for the Cambrian explosion was probably quite long," said Dr Phil Wilby, palaeontology leader at the British Geological Survey.The animal was probably smothered in a sediment slide on the underwater flank of a volcano
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