Summary:
- Researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient species that lived during a mass extinction event around 252 million years ago in a quarry in China.
- The fossils provide insights into how life on Earth recovered after this major extinction event, known as the Permian-Triassic extinction, which wiped out up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of land-based species.
- The newly discovered species, named Luolishania, was a small, worm-like creature that lived in the ocean and likely played an important role in the ecosystem as it recovered from the devastating extinction.