{"id":2375,"date":"2011-03-29T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:13:20","slug":"new-specie-discovered-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/new-specie-discovered-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"New fossil discovered in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2375 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/shutterstock_66424567.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/shutterstock_66424567-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Complete-525-million-year-old-hemichordate-Derek-Siveter-Oxford-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Complete-525-million-year-old-hemichordate-Derek-Siveter-Oxford-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Leicester, in the UK, and from Yunnan University, China, discovered a well-preserved fossil that provides new information on primitive sea creatures and their evolution. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 525-million-year-old creature belongs to the <em>pterobranch hemichordate,<\/em> a group related to starfishes and sea urchins. These animals secrete a substance that builds up into a hard tube around their soft body.<\/p>\n<p>The minuscule fossil (it measures less than 4 centimetres) has 36 tiny tentacles \u2014 which might have been useful to catch plankton \u2014 and one feathery arm. Since it is so well preserved, the <em>Galeaplumosus abilus<\/em> (&#8220;feathered helmet from beyond the clouds&#8221;\u009d) offers clues to the evolution of the earliest vertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>Professor David Siveter, from the University of Leicester, said on the press release: &#8220;Amazingly, it has exceptionally preserved soft tissue \u2014 including arms and tentacles used for feeding \u2014 giving unrivalled insight into the ancient biology of the group.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Further study of this fossil will help us understand the prehistoric ocean and its evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Leicester, in the UK, and from Yunnan University, China, discovered a well-preserved fossil that provides new information on primitive sea creatures and their evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69,6,49,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-archaeology","category-nature","category-palaeontology","category-science-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}