A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has discovered a new middle Cambrian (5.04 mya) konservat-lagerstätte in the ...
New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...
Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the ...
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Ediacaran fossils from 554 million years ago reveal animals once thought to appear only in the Cambrian
In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is roughly 554 million years old. The collection, known as the Jiangchuan Biota, ...
This paper provides an overview of the early Cambrian Guanshan biota with emphasis on new information regarding its sedimentology, taphonomy, and biodiversity. The full extent and significance of this ...
Unlike the Earth’s “Big Five” great mass extinctions, scientists now think the first mass extinction, during the Ediacaran Period, may be like the “Sixth Extinction” happening today. Evolution was the ...
Components of the newly-described Fezouata fauna. a, Demosponge Pirania auraeum b, Choiid demosponge c, Annelid worm d, Organism showing possible similarities to halkieriids e, Possible armoured ...
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