Early Cambrian Fossil Rewrites Starfish Family Tree
A 518-million-year-old ambulacrarian fossil from China suggests that the common ancestor of starfish and their relatives was not…
Ancient Himalayan-scale Mountains in Antarctica May Have Helped Gondwana Set Off the Explosion of Animal Life
Credit: Unsplash. Long before Antarctica froze over, parts of the continent may have risen into mountains on the…
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…
Scientists discovered that animal poop travelled across oceans 540-million-years ago and triggered the evolution of life on earth |
A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, US. Image Credit: Poozeum/Wikipedia Around…
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…
Rethinking the Cambrian Explosion: Before Shells and Limbs, There Was the Brain
A new hypothesis proposes that the Cambrian Explosion — the sudden burst of animal diversity 500 million years…
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…