These Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved
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"These Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include CP24, EurekAlert!, New Scientist and Nature. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (7)
- Ancient fossil may reveal animal kingdom's earliest right-handedness at 550 million years old Phys.org · 8h ago
- Earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’ CNN · 8h ago
- This worm-like ancient creature may be the oldest right-handed animal CP24 · 8h ago
- Spriggina floundersi fossil (IMAGE) EurekAlert! · 8h ago
- A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right New Scientist · 8h ago
- Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi Nature · 8h ago
- These Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved The New York Times · 8h ago broke it first
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