Mistaken Point, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Canada, is a 565-million-year-old fossil site preserving Earth’s earliest complex multicellular life from the Ediacaran period. Its rocky shores hold impressions of ancient, soft-bodied organisms, offering a rare glimpse into life before the Cambrian explosion. Recognized for its scientific value, it stands as a critical record of evolutionary history.

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