在国家自然科学基金等项目的共同资助下,中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所尹磊明、朱茂炎研究员等人在我国三峡地区发现了6.3亿年前地球上最早的动物化石记录,这一发现立即得到作为国际上前寒武纪微体化石研究专家、哈佛大学的安迪·诺尔的肯定。这一新的发现是迄今最早的动物化石可靠记录,将动物的起源时间提前到6.32 With the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and other projects, researchers from the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Palaeontology, Yin Lei-ming and Zhu Mao-yan, who discovered the earliest records of animal fossils in the Three Gorges area in China over 630 million years ago, On the Precambrian microfossils research expert, Andy Noel of Harvard University affirmed. This new discovery is by far the earliest reliable animal fossil record, the animal’s origin of time advanced to 6.32