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Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.
The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...
Many major groups of animals that have become a mainstay in modern times first appeared during the Cambrian Explosion.
The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been brought into question. New research suggests that this dramatic burst of ...
The new fossils from the mountains of Morocco, which preserve a range of individuals of different sizes, help to fill in this evolutionary gap. When Atlascytis was alive roughly 500 million years ago ...
Fossils, ranging from real to very dubious, have been described from the pre-Cambrian of Canada, Finland, India and the United States. The present note announces a new find from Michigan.
Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...
Quantifying the evolution of early life : numerical approaches to the evaluation of fossils and ancient ecosystems / Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, Stephen Q. Dornbos, editors ...
PLANS have been unveiled to build a new 37 turbine wind farm on the outskirts of Aberystwyth, Bute Energy has announced its ...
The exhibit, titled “Our Ocean, Close-Up,” features detailed portraits of species found in Hawaiʻi’s waters, painted by 11th ...
Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...
Maui High School students displayed their marine life paintings at a sanctuary, combining art with marine science, under the Artists in the Schools grant initiative.