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The young and the vestless

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A new lower Cambrian fossil locality in South China offers spectacular glimpses into the post-larval development of a wide variety of soft-bodied early marine animals, knowledge of which has been confined to their mature stages until now.

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Fig. 1: Part of the modelled post-larval development of the 429-million-year-old trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii from the Czech Republic.

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