Tech & Science Daily: Fossil of ‘first animal predator’ named after Sir David Attenborough

Plus, Amazon Prime price increase: All you need to know
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Rachelle Abbott26 July 2022

A 560-million-year-old fossil named after Sir David Attenborough is the ‘first animal predator’.

Tech & Science Daily spoke to Dr Phil Wilby, from the British Geological Survey, who is one of the lead scientists behind the discovery, made in Charnwood Forest near Leicester.

Dr Wilby describes the creature as having tentacles and being around 20cm in length.

It's the earliest known creature to have a skeleton and the earliest evidence of animals that separated as colonies into multiple individuals.

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