Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.
Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...
Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...
Scientists in Scotland uncover a new form of life from 410 million years ago, challenging long-held beliefs about early Earth ...
Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...
Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...
Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...
About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...
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Scientists find fossils that worked like ocean GPS
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery by unearthing giant magnetofossils in ancient ocean sediments, revealing structures that may have served as a built-in GPS system for prehistoric marine ...
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 ...
In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 ...
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