MP's Bhimbetka caves host to 550-million-year-old fossils, possibly oldest ever found in India

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A group of geologists touring the Bhimbetka caves at the beginning of the pandemic made an accidental discovery of the oldest fossils ever found in India, belonging to the genus of animals called Dickinsonia, some of the oldest animals to ever exist on Earth. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains how these fossils were discovered, what they mean, and what questions still remain.
Supplementary reading:
A Natural Work of Art May Be Hiding Among Indian Cave Masterpieces https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/science/india-cave-art-fossil.html
Research paper: Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1246
This Enigmatic Blob Was One of Earth's Earliest Animals https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/news-ediacaran-ancient-life-fossil-dickinsonia/
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