Chemosymbiosis between Animals and Microbes May Predate the Cambrian: Study
A tubular marine creature that lived on the seafloor more than 540 million years ago may have survived…
Scientists Say Antarctica’s Lost ‘Supermountains’ May Have Fueled an Explosion of Life on Earth
The Cambrian explosion brought exactly that to Earth—an “explosion” of life that kickstarted the evolution of animals as…
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…
The Weirdest Theory Yet for Why Life on Earth Suddenly Exploded
In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary…
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…