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Discovery of this 555-million-year-old creature, which could be the ancestor of modern animals
a site renowned for its Ediacaran period fossils. Researchers found valuable traces of evolution here. Quaestio simpsonorum ...
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First There Were Microbes. Then Life on Earth Got Big.
We reached Mistaken Point beneath a blue sky and a blazing sun—rare weather ... referring to a famously rich early Ediacaran fossil bed on which we stood. The later Ediacaran, as revealed ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
University of Manchester7y
Half-a-billion year old worm fossils shed new light on animal evolution
The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...
What scientists learned from a well-preserved fossil of this iconic Jurassic-era species
The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.
Phys.org on MSN11d
Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
The fossils recovered from the Steinhatchee River site offer a rare look into how this process of speciation took place, with ...
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A rare fossil reveals a possible 76-million-year-old clash between a crocodile and young pterosaur
Rare fossil tells story of possible 76-million-year old clash between a crocodile and a young pterosaur. (photo credit: University of Reading) A rare fossil discovery made in July 2023 at Dinosaur ...
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Paleontologists Reveal Secret Force Behind Early Evolution
During the Ediacaran period, around 580 million years ... These animals are relatively rare in the fossil record due to their low preservation potential, as they lacked hard parts like shells ...