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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe but I don’t think fossil evidence has enough information to confirm something isn’t from the main branch of the tree of life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

especially when some of that stuff took a while for us to realize it's even part of the same organism, or an organism at all.