Title:
'Oldest known animal': 425 million-years-old Millipede fossil discovered in Scotland
Author:
Zaini Majeed
Published:
Republic World, 8 June 2020
https://m.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/425-million-years-old-millipede-fossil-discovered-in-scotland.html
From the article:
Researchers at The University of Texas, Austin have dug out a 425-million-year-old fossilized millipede from the Scottish island of Kerrera. The oldest bug specimen in the history of paleontology is a category of arthropods which includes land-dwelling insects, arachnids, and centipedes. The researchers published the study of the fossil and its implications in the journal Historical Biology that helps them discover the compressed evolutionary timeline for both plants and bugs, as per the study.