If you could dive down to the ocean floor nearly 540 million years ago just past the point where waves begin to break, you would find an explosion of life–scores […]
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Discovery Of The Oldest Evidence Of Mobility On Earth
A few years ago, geologist Abderrazak El Albani and his team at the Institut de chimie des milieux et matériaux de Poitiers (CNRS/Université de Poitiers) discovered the oldest existing fossils […]
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Biosignatures May Reveal a Wealth of New Data Locked Inside Old Fossils
Step aside, skeletons — a new world of biochemical “signatures” found in all kinds of ancient fossils is revealing itself to paleontologists, providing a new avenue for insights into major […]
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1 Billion-year-old Green Seaweed Fossils identified, Relative Of Modern Land Plants
Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees […]
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There Was Collective Animal Behavior On Earth 480 Million Years Ago
Though our understanding of the anatomy of the earliest animals is growing ever more precise, we know next to nothing about their behaviour. Did group behaviour arise recently or is […]
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Rare Fossils Provide A Detailed Picture Of Middle Ordovician Biodiversity
A clutch of marine fossil specimens unearthed in northern Portugal that lived between 470 and 459 million years ago is filling a gap in understanding evolution during the Middle Ordovician […]
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Tracking Records Of The Oldest Life Forms On Earth
The discovery provides a new characteristic ‘biosignature’ to track the remains of ancient life preserved in rocks which are significantly altered over billions of years and could help identify life […]
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Fossilized Tracks Suggest Multicellular Life Far Older Than Previously Thought
Newly discovered fossilized tracks suggest multicellular life could be 1.5 billion years older than previously thought, according to a new study by an international team of researchers including scientists at […]
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Tiny Bubbles of Oxygen Trapped 1.6 billion Years Ago
Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on […]
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Half-a-billion-year-old Fossils Shed light Animal Evolution on Earth
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including palaeontologist […]