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sciencedaily.com /2 weeks ago

Paleontology rocked by discovery of organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, overturning a long-standing belief that fossilization destr...

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phys.org /2 days 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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discovermagazine.com /2 days 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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discovermagazine.com /1 month ago

539-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Fossils Push Complex Animal Life Back 4 Million Years

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian explosion.

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futurity.org /3 days 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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scitechdaily.com /1 month ago

Scientists Baffled by Bizarre “Living Fossil” From 275 Million Years Ago

Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This rare herbivorous “living fossil” helps scientists bette...

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phys.org /1 week 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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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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phys.org /1 month ago

Breathing new life into an ancient mystery: Unlocking the trilobite's respiratory secrets

For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 known species spanning the Paleozoic Era. Yet, despite t...

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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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sciencedaily.com /2 weeks 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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arstechnica.com /1 month ago

New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.

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scitechdaily.com /1 month ago

Scientists Just Rewrote the Timeline of Complex Life on Earth

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a...

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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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theconversation.com /2 days 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 /1 month ago

Ancient teeth reveal clues to the environment humans' early ancestors evolved in millions of years ago

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners have died and landscapes have changed.

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theconversation.com /1 week 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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phys.org /2 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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sciencedaily.com /4 weeks 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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bioengineer.org /2 weeks ago

New Astrobiology Special Collection Highlights Emerging Evidence Supporting Land-Based Origins of Life

The longstanding quest to understand life’s origins is experiencing a profound paradigm shift, moving away from the traditional focus on deep-sea hydrothermal vents toward recogniz...

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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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scienceandculture.com /1 week 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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pbs.org /1 month ago

Newly discovered fossils give scientists first look at the evolution of early complex animals

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatur...

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