Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth’s surface
A new global isotopic map has revealed vast fragments of ancient Gondwanan crust buried beneath younger mountain belts…
Cambrian Explosion May Have Been Triggered by Primitive Animal Feces — BigGo Finance
Fossilized feces from primitive marine animals have been identified as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion—the dramatic…
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods
Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle — a tubular extension of the mantle found…
Earth’s Earliest Animals May Have Thrived Too Easily to Evolve
Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest…
490-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Fills Puzzling Gap in Fossil Record
A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years…
500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Identified as Oldest Known Chelicerate
Paleontologists at Harvard University have described a large predatory arthropod from the Middle Cambrian of Utah featuring massive…