Scientists once believed they had the earliest evidence of animals documented in sufficient detail. Of course, given how discoveries work, it wouldn’t take too long for someone to eventually stumble upon incredible findings that would upend what we know about the history of life on Earth—and in this case, it’s from cleaning a particular rock face in a forest in Leicestershire.
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