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A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

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The new fossil is named after Russell Garwood, a Manchester University paleontologist who has spent his career understanding chelicerate evolution. The specimen was originally collected in 1962 during ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was postulated in “On the Origin of Species.” In this theory, Darwin suggested that evolution occurred gradually, although there were no complete fossils.

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The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...

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Flinders University's Thomas Turner (left) and Dr Russell Bicknell (right) with Turner's illustration of the 500-million-old anthropod Magnicornaspis garwoodi. New research, to be published in BMC ...