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Joel Kontinen
The Cambrian fossil Protomelission may actually be a seaweed. Scientist thought that 515-million-year-old fossil may actually be a seaweed and not a not a bryozoan.
It is quite hard to find the years a fosill with years marked on it. Some of them were made in Noah's Flood when the Earth was subdued with water.
Source:
Lesté-Lasserre, Christa. 2023. Fossil thought to be earliest animal may actually be seaweed. New Scientist 8 March.