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Jellyfish are one of the oldest types of creatures to ever roam around the Earth. And recently in a fossil-rich area of the Canadian Rockies, paleontologists discovered what could be the oldest species ever discovered.
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00:00Jellyfish are one of the oldest types of creatures to ever roam around the Earth.
00:08And recently, in a fossil-rich area of the Canadian Rockies,
00:11paleontologists discovered what could be the oldest species ever discovered.
00:16This is what experts say are the fossilized remains of the Burgessomedusa phasmiformis,
00:21a species of predatory jellyfish that lived some 505 million years ago.
00:26And they are related to sea anemones and even coral.
00:29This particular fossil is a clear indicator that jellyfish as we know them
00:33had already evolved even hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs walked the Earth.
00:37The researchers say that despite being 95% water,
00:40the jellyfish were still capable of grabbing prey to feast on.
00:43With the researchers adding,
00:45Burgessomedusa adds to the complexity of the Cambrian footwebs.
00:48And like Anomalicarus, which lived in the same environment,
00:51these jellyfish were efficient swimming predators.
00:54Experts say that finding jellyfish fossils is extremely rare,
00:57as fossilized remains are usually formed from hard tissue,
01:00of which jellyfish have none.
01:02Meaning their evolutionary history is not very well understood,
01:05and highlights just what a momentous discovery this truly is.
01:09It truly is.
01:10It truly is.
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