These Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved
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- Velocity & Diffusion: Coverage escalated across 7 distinct news outlets with 7 published articles, achieving a live velocity of 5.
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"These Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 7 articles from 7 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Phys.org, CNN, CP24 and EurekAlert!. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
This brief was generated by Newsylist's extractive engine from coverage metadata only. The latest headlines from every source are listed below; the velocity chart shows how the story is developing in real time.
Generated by Newsylist's extractive engine from coverage metadata only — no AI-written claims. Updated 62d ago.
The reporting (7)
- Ancient fossil may reveal animal kingdom's earliest right-handedness at 550 million years old Phys.org · 64d ago
- Earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’ CNN · 64d ago
- This worm-like ancient creature may be the oldest right-handed animal CP24 · 64d ago
- Spriggina floundersi fossil (IMAGE) EurekAlert! · 64d ago
- A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right New Scientist · 64d ago
- Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi Nature · 64d ago
- These Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved The New York Times · 64d ago broke it first
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