Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.
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Scientists were sure the ocean was dead, then they dug up this insane fossil site
Just over 512 million years ago, Earth’s life was shaken by a major extinction event, yet fossil evidence reveals it persisted. A newly discovered fossil site in South China captures an entire marine ...
More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...
At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and ...
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How he found crystals inside fossil shells
This hunt started with fossil shells but turned into something unexpected. Inside several fossils were calcite crystals formed over thousands of years. Florida geology created the perfect conditions ...
In a warmer climate, summers warm much faster than winters, according to research into fossil shells. With this knowledge we can better map the consequences of current global warming in the North Sea ...
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