Living, Prospering Creatures Before the Dinsosaur Age

So talk about new discoveries popping up left and right that are definitely mind boggling for everyone interested, me, in new species being found. Scientists were studying sheets of rock and found this eight legged creature that looked more like a plant or ‘modern party favor’, had prospered way before dinosaurs were even around. So this would bring together a large chunk of time, Ediacaran Period, which was blank of any life forms up till now.
So talk about where the heck did these things come from? What is even a greater inconvenience is where the fossils of this organism were found. They were from two totally different environments on Earth. One was from a black shale rock in South China and the other was from a quartz sample found in South Australia. According to ‘paleogeographic’ reconstructions though studies of the past show, meaning land movement (plate tectonics), that these two areas were once near each other and known as a land called Gondwana.
How they came across the figure happening to be in different places was that a scientist, Maoyan Zhu, from China, met with an Aussie, names James Gehling, at a Beijing convention and Zhu showed the guy this fossil picture and he quickly pulled out a picture that resembled what he was being shown. And what would you guess; they were very similar through picture use only. They immediately gathered as many fossils as possible and met up in near the sites in Australia that these were also discovered. While leading more than thirty people on an excavation they found many more of this eight-legged phenomenon. No question was drawn at the fact that this creature had many limbs not all connected but thin enough to act as their own arm or leg for the specimen.
After studying both fossils from both excavation sites, they came to a conclusion that this organism was a “soft bodied, dome shaped organism”. Also that it fed by absorbing nutrients from the close by environment. What is sad in my opinion that they died out for obscene reasons. This left that giant gap in the life timeline, and left the rest of the crevices of life to evolve into more complex organism that we have studied for information on the out past. Magazines have been published about this finding but most of the information is found in the one know as Geology. This tells a lot more about the specimen and how it managed to live in more than one type of living condition hopefully. If I can find this copy, maybe I will touch more on the subject but not for now….
Seriously, this just totally blows my mind as well as it should of everyone else since it makes history for adding more to the life time line that students get to learn over the years. I don’t know what it is about biological information that interests me but for some reason it definitely attracts the minds of most…