A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...
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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 ...
The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...
The fossil record offers a unique window into the history of predator–prey interactions, revealing the evolution of predatory strategies and prey defences over geological timescales. Evidence such as ...
How paleontologists interpret the fossil record is about to change, as new research challenges our understanding of bone ...
Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...
Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...
In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...
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