Fossil discovery solves 500-million-year-old mystery about the dawn of animal life
Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For…
Complex Colonial Life Was Already Thriving during Cambrian Explosion
Tiny colonial animals called bryozoans were long thought to have appeared tens of millions of years after the…
Study Claims 540-Million-Year-Old ‘Animal’ Fossils Are Something Else Entirely
In 2017, researchers found tiny, fossilized filaments that, at the time, appeared to be trace fossils of worms…
Brain-First Hypothesis: Rethinking the Cambrian Explosion
Summary: The “Cambrian Explosion”, the period roughly 500 million years ago when animal life rapidly diversified, may not…
US, China seen as top AI beneficiaries in new growth forecast from ‘Doctor Doom’ economist
The economist famously dubbed “Doctor Doom” for predicting the 2008 financial crisis has seemingly morphed into a bullish…
‘Extraordinary’ trove of ancient species found in China quarry
PARIS, Jan 29 — Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion…
The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests | MIT News
A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the…