A fossil turned out to be just a beehive, and the correction puts the geologic and life history of India back into contention In 2020, amid the first pandemic lockdowns, a scientific conference scheduled to take place in India never happened. But a group of geologists who were already on site decided to make the most of their time and visited the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters, a series of caves with ancient cave art near Bhopal, India. There, they spotted the fossil of Dickinsonia¸ a flat, elongated and primitive animal from before complex animals evolved. It marked the first-ever discovery of Dickinsonia in India. An object that at first looked like a fossil of the primitive animal Dickinsonia (left) quickly started decaying and peeling off the rock (right), a sign it was something ...
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