A 480-million-year-old fossil changes what we know about the origin of parasites |

A 480-million-year-old fossil changes what we know about the origin of parasites |

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent study published in iScience found signs of parasitic worms living inside the shells of an ancient sea creature about 480 million years ago, during the Early Ordovician…

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