alsuccess. generally kno many scientists didn’t agree all, and t it o get very ugly. In text of to do empers t ps.
In fact, ed at least a sooner. Nearly forty years after alcottmade in Australia, a young geologistnamed Reginald Sprigg found somets as remarkable.
In 1946 Sprigg ant government geologist for tate of Soutraliao make a survey of abandoned mines in tback some to see if t migably reec studying surface rocks at all, still less fossils. But one day o put itmildly—to see t te fossils, rated t the dawn of visible life.
Sprigg submitted a paper to Nature , but it urned doead at tannual meeting of tralian and Neion for t ofScience, but it failed to find favor ion’s s uitous inorganic markings”—patterns made by ides, but not living beings. yet entirely crusraveled to London andpresented o ternational Geological Congress, but failed to exciteeiterest or belief. Finally, for of a better outlet, ransactions of ty of Soutralia. t job andtook up oil exploration.
Nine years later, in 1957, a sc in trange fossil in it, similar toa modern sea pen and exactly like some of trying totell everyone about ever since. turned it in to a paleontologist at tyof Leicester, at once as Precambrian. Young Mason got ure in treated as a precocious ill is in many books. the specimen wasnamed in his honor Chamia masoni.
today some of Sprigg’s original Ediacaran specimens, along een t time, canbe seen in a glass case in an upstairs room of tout and lovely Soutralian Museumin Adelaide, but t attract a great deal of attention. tely etcterns arerat and not terribly arresting to trained eye. tly small and disc-srailing ribbons. Fortey -bodiedoddities.”
till very little agreement about old, no mouto take in and discivematerials, and no internal organs o process teysays, “most of t, like soft,structureless and inanimate flatfis t, tures ic, meaning t from tissue. ition of jellyfisoday are triploblastic.
Some experts t animals at a