A new study debunks previous claims that ancient embryo-like fossils from China are remnants of early animal life, revealing they belong to an entirely different class of organisms. Fossils from the Weng’an Biota in Southern China, previously thought to be remnants of early animal embryos, are instead traced to entirely different multicellular organisms. This revelation forces a major reevaluation of the timeline for the emergen... [4730 chars]