Bold Claim, Hidden Design: What Salterella Reveals About Early Life

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What if a fossil no bigger than a grain of rice showed engineering so precise that it still puzzles scientists? That is the intrigue surrounding Salterella, a tiny cone-shaped creature recently studied by Virginia Tech researchers. Their work highlights a surprising feature—a shell made from two different minerals. They describe it as an evolutionary “experimentation” from the start of animal life.1 Yet t…

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