{"id":2891,"date":"2023-02-08T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:29:25","slug":"dickinsonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dickinsonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinsonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Dickinsonia:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dickinsonia is an extinct genus of basal animal that lived during the late<strong> Ediacaran period<\/strong> on ocean floors around present-day\u2019s <strong>Australia, Russia and Ukraine<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The individual Dickinsonia typically resembles a bilaterally <strong>symmetrical ribbed oval<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its affinities are presently unknown; its mode of growth is consistent with a stem-group <strong>bilaterian affinity<\/strong>, though some have suggested that it belongs to the fungi or even an \u201cextinct kingdom\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The discovery of cholesterol molecules in fossils of Dickinsonia lends support to the idea that <strong>Dickinsonia was an animal.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It is believed to be one of the key links between the early, simple organisms and the explosion of life in the Cambrian Period, about 541 million years ago.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Ediacaran period\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It consisted of tubular and frond-shaped organisms that lived during this period.<\/li>\n<li>The Edicarian Period was about 20 million years before the emergence of modern animal life \u2014 a period known as the Cambrian explosion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the significance of the Cambrian Period?<\/h3>\n<p>The Cambrian Period marks an important point in the history of life on Earth; it is the time when most of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhopal\/earliest-animal-fossil-discovered-near-bhopal-turns-out-to-be-beehive\/articleshow\/97714550.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The earliest animal\u2019 fossil discovered near Bhopal turns out to be a beehive.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinsonia is an extinct genus of basal animal that lived during the late Ediacaran period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}