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Fossilized Fat Shows 550-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature May Have Been the World’s First Animal – Mental Floss
Organisms called ‘Dickinsonia’ defied classification for decades.
On May 19, 1845, the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus set sail from England and headed for the Arctic. Commanding the expedition was Sir John Franklin, a distinguished naval officer with a few Arctic voyages under his belt. Britains Admiralty was hopeful that, within a year, he would arrive in the Bering Strait having successfully charted the Northwest Passage.
But as 1846 slipped away with no sign of either shipand no word from the explorersit became clear that something had gone wrong. Franklins wife,…
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