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Mysterious fossils that had been sitting idle for decades in a Belgian museum have just been identified, and they're something wonderful.

比利時一家博物館閒置了幾十年的神祕化石剛剛被鑑定出來，它們是一些奇妙的東西。

According to new analysis, these are fungal structures dating between 715 and 810 million years ago - making them some of the earliest fungus specimens ever recorded.

根據新的分析，這些真菌結構可以追溯到7.15億到8.1億年前-這使它們成為有記錄的最早的真菌標本之一。

And, with the discovery, the history of the emergence of complex life on our planet has just become a little bit clearer.

而且，隨著這一發現，我們星球上出現複雜生命的歷史剛剛變得更加清晰。

One of the big questions about the evolution of life on Earth is when exactly did multicellular life emerge from the soggy depths of the primordial ocean and start establishing itself on land.

關於地球上生命進化的一個大問題是，多細胞生命究竟是什麼時候從原始海洋的潮溼深處出現並開始在陸地上定居的。

It was previously thought this occurred in the Palaeozoic Era, which started around 541 million years ago.

以前認為這發生在古生代，大約開始於5.41億年前。

Last year, however, a discovery indicated otherwise.

然而，去年的一項發現表明情況並非如此。

An international team of scientists led by Corentin Loron of the University of Liège in Belgium identified fossils of fungus from Canada, dating back to between 900 million and 1 billion years ago - early in the Neoproterozoic Era.

由比利時列日大學(University of Liège)的科倫丁·羅倫(Corentin Loron)領導的一個國際科學家小組鑑定了來自加拿大的真菌化石，這些化石可以追溯到9億到10億年前-即新元古代早期。

They called the fungus Ourasphaira giraldae.

他們把這種真菌叫做Ourasphaira Giraldae。