8 ancient fossils that belong to animals before dinosaurs

Dickinsonia: This bizarre creature lived during the Ediacaran period (around 560 to 541 million years ago), well before the dinosaurs.

Haikouichthys: This primitive fish, dating back to the Cambrian period (around 530 million years ago), is one of the earliest examples of a jawless fish with a head and tail distinction.

Trilobites: These segmented arthropods thrived in the Paleozoic Era (541 to 252 million years ago) before the dinosaurs

Eurypterids (Sea Scorpions): These giant aquatic arthropods lived from the Ordovician to the Permian period (488 to 252 million years ago).

Coelacanths: Nicknamed "living fossils," coelacanths were thought to be extinct for millions of years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938.

Gorgonopsians: These mammal-like reptiles lived during the Permian period (299 to 252 million years ago) and were apex predators of their time.

Pelycosaurs: Another group of mammal-like reptiles that existed in the Permian period alongside Gorgonopsians.

This information is not DNA's opinion but obtained from media reports