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phys.org /4 weeks ago

Strange 500-million-year-old marine fossils reveal a feeding strategy that still shapes oceans today

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now becom...

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phys.org /3 weeks ago

Discovery of new fossils in Northwest Canada changes view of early animal evolution

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earliest evolution of complex animal...

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phys.org /1 week ago

Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their origins presented a puzzling gap in the fossil record. Whil...

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discovermagazine.com /2 weeks ago

A 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Adds a New Clue to a Missing Chapter of Animal Evolution

Learn how a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil from Québec is helping scientists rethink the Furongian gap and the hidden diversity of late Cambrian life.

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futurity.org /2 weeks ago

Early complex life lived on seafloors for millions of years

Scientists now have a better idea of what our early ancestors looked like, where they lived, and how they functioned.

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Tiny fossils found in 1.7-billion‑year‑old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below th...

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scientificamerican.com /3 weeks ago

These bizarre fossils represent some of the earliest moving, sexually reproducing life ever discovered

New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea

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scienceblog.com /1 month ago

Tiny Cambrian Fossils Push Back Origin of Swimming Worms

Seven little worms, none more than a few millimeters long, were picked from acid-dissolved rock in southern Shaanxi Province over the course of painstaking residue-hunting. They do...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Science Paper Overstates Case for “Diverse Assemblage of Bilaterians” in the Ediacaran

I suspect the bilaterian nature of this “most numerous” fossil will be challenged as more studies come out. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

Over the past few days I’ve been discussing an important paper in the journal Science that reveals supposed Ediacaran bilaterian animal fossils (see here and here, with more to com...

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phys.org /1 month ago

Cambrian microfossils reveal earliest known ringed worms from 535 million years ago

Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back approximately 535 million years ago. This discovery offers fr...

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phys.org /3 weeks ago

Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of t...

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils

Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Source

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theconversation.com /3 weeks ago

Rare 567-million-year-old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution

When it comes to evolution, a few million years can really matter.

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theconversation.com /2 weeks ago

500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth

The fossil is a reminder of how incomplete our understanding of Earth’s history remains.

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Forgotten museum fossil helps rewrite part of animal evolution

New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when paleontologists previousl...

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theconversation.com /3 weeks ago

Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life

The companies that drilled these cores decades ago couldn’t have known the scientific treasures inside.

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sciencedaily.com /1 month ago

This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today

Deep in a dried-up riverbed in Brazil, scientists uncovered a bizarre prehistoric mystery—twisted jawbones from a strange, long-lost animal unlike anything seen before. Dating back...

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sciencedaily.com /1 month ago

Scientists just solved a 160-million-year fossil mystery “I’ve never seen anything like it”

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, e...

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scitechdaily.com /4 weeks ago

540-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal a Huge Surprise About Early Life on Earth

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes. Ancient microfossils discovered in Brazil are changing scientists’...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Retroactive Confessions Permeate Around Science Paper on Ediacaran “Bilaterians”

What you just read is an amusing example of what some of my friends affectionally call “Luskin’s First Law.” It goes like this. Source

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sciencedaily.com /1 month ago

Stunning fossil discovery challenges the origins of animal life

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life. What were once thought to be trails left behind...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

The Prescient Günter Bechly: New Paper Doesn’t Negate the Cambrian Explosion

Over some prior posts (see here and here), I’ve been discussing a new paper in Science which claims to reveal Precambrian fossils from the Ediacaran period in China that represent...

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discovermagazine.com /1 month ago

450‑Million‑Year‑Old Jellyfish Relative Reveals New Species and Clues to Early Evolution

Learn how a newly discovered jellyfish species fossil from Quebec reveals how early jellyfish evolved and why soft-bodied life is so rarely preserved.

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