A fossil of a 560-million-year-old creature has been named after a famous British naturalist and broadcaster.Researchers say auroralumina attenboroughii may have been the first animal predator, or hunter.The creature is named after 96-year-old David Attenborough who has also written many books about the natural world.He reportedly said he was “truly delighted” with the honor.The first part of the name, auroralumina, means dawn lantern in the Latin language.Phil Wilby studies ancient life at the British Geological Survey.He told the Associated Press it is believed that “…modern animal groups like jellyfish appeared 540 million years ago in the Cambrian explosion.”“But this predator,” he said, “predates that by 20 million years.”Scientists call the period between about 541 million to 530 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion.
