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The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand worm from Dune." It has transformed ...
A newly described species from the Burgess Shale had three eyes, clawed limbs, and a tail full of gills—plus internal organs preserved in stunning detail. Reading time 3 minutes A newly described ...
The rich fossil repository known as the Burgess Shale was first discovered a century ago. Siobhan Roberts The fossil-hunting expedition began with a lung-busting hike, accompanied by an incessant ...
The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.
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A rare example of exceptional fossil preservation: Major animal groups were living on the seafloor millions of years before the Cambrian explosion
A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to ...
Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct ...
The author is a Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Fourteen photographic plates are included in the article, which is followed ...
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