Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
How paleontologists interpret the fossil record is about to change, as new research challenges our understanding of bone ...
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A clock running fast could explain Darwin’s fossil record gaps
Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
Dinosaur Discovery on MSN
What British fossils reveal - and what they still fail to explain
Great Britain has yielded some of the earliest and most important prehistoric fossils ever discovered. Yet many of these finds raise as many questions as they answer about ancient ecosystems and ...
This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor of complex animals to evolve, unhurriedly splitting to make new species ...
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