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How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Foreverlots of alien-looking complex life swimming in the ancient ocean

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How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Foreverlots of alien-looking complex life swimming in the ancient ocean
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How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Forever

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"A Rare Example of Exceptional Fossil Preservation": Major Animal Groups Were Living On The Seafloor Millions Of Years Before The Cambrian ExplosionA reconstruction of the Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota, which at ~554-539 million years ago preceeded the Cambrian Explosion

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"A Rare Example of Exceptional Fossil Preservation": Major Animal Groups Were Living On The Seafloor Millions Of Years Before The Cambrian ExplosionA reconstruction of the Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota, which at ~554-539 million years ago preceeded the Cambrian Explosion
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"A Rare Example of Exceptional Fossil Preservation": Major Animal Groups Were Living On The Seafloor Millions Of Years Before The Cambrian Explosion

clock-iconApril 3, 2026

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The Forgotten Apocalypse: Scientists Think Earth's First Mass Extinction Has Been Hidden In Plain SightPalaeobiologists find new evidence of younger Ediacaran biota at the Inner Meadow in Newfoundland, Canada.

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The Forgotten Apocalypse: Scientists Think Earth's First Mass Extinction Has Been Hidden In Plain SightPalaeobiologists find new evidence of younger Ediacaran biota at the Inner Meadow in Newfoundland, Canada.
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The Forgotten Apocalypse: Scientists Think Earth's First Mass Extinction Has Been Hidden In Plain Sight

clock-iconMarch 16, 2026

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At Least 541 Million Years Old, These Might Be The First Animals To Evolve On Planet EarthAgelas clathrodes, also known as the orange elephant ear sponge, is a species of demosponge

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At Least 541 Million Years Old, These Might Be The First Animals To Evolve On Planet EarthAgelas clathrodes, also known as the orange elephant ear sponge, is a species of demosponge
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At Least 541 Million Years Old, These Might Be The First Animals To Evolve On Planet Earth

clock-iconOctober 2, 2025
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We May Have Misjudged A Fundamental Fact About The Cambrian ExplosionCambrian explosion

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We May Have Misjudged A Fundamental Fact About The Cambrian ExplosionCambrian explosion
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We May Have Misjudged A Fundamental Fact About The Cambrian Explosion

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Just A Small Rise In Earth's Oxygen Levels Led To The Cambrian Explosion And Its Evolutionary LeapsLife on the platform margin of the Miaolingian sea, North China. Based on data from the Linyi Lagerstätte. Drawing by Dinghua Yang.

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Just A Small Rise In Earth's Oxygen Levels Led To The Cambrian Explosion And Its Evolutionary LeapsLife on the platform margin of the Miaolingian sea, North China. Based on data from the Linyi Lagerstätte. Drawing by Dinghua Yang.
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Just A Small Rise In Earth's Oxygen Levels Led To The Cambrian Explosion And Its Evolutionary Leaps

clock-iconJuly 15, 2024
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What Was The Cambrian Explosion and Why Was It Important?Colorful cartoon style animals exploding out from a central point

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What Was The Cambrian Explosion and Why Was It Important?Colorful cartoon style animals exploding out from a central point
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What Was The Cambrian Explosion and Why Was It Important?

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Ancient Peperami Had A Surprisingly Complex Body For A 515-Million-Year-Old Wormworm cambrian explosion

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Ancient Peperami Had A Surprisingly Complex Body For A 515-Million-Year-Old Wormworm cambrian explosion
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Ancient Peperami Had A Surprisingly Complex Body For A 515-Million-Year-Old Worm

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Huge Asteroid Crash 470-Million-Years-Ago Sparked A Boom Of Life On Eartharticle image

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Huge Asteroid Crash 470-Million-Years-Ago Sparked A Boom Of Life On Eartharticle image
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Huge Asteroid Crash 470-Million-Years-Ago Sparked A Boom Of Life On Earth

clock-iconSeptember 19, 2019

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Stunning Bounty Of 500-Million-Year-Old Marine Fossils Unearthed In Chinaarticle image

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Stunning Bounty Of 500-Million-Year-Old Marine Fossils Unearthed In Chinaarticle image
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Stunning Bounty Of 500-Million-Year-Old Marine Fossils Unearthed In China

clock-iconMarch 22, 2019
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Earliest Footprints Ever Found Date To Before Legs Were Even Thought To Have Evolvedarticle image

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Earliest Footprints Ever Found Date To Before Legs Were Even Thought To Have Evolvedarticle image
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Earliest Footprints Ever Found Date To Before Legs Were Even Thought To Have Evolved

clock-iconJune 7, 2018

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Some Of Earth's Earliest Predators Included Killer Baby "Shrimp"article image

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Some Of Earth's Earliest Predators Included Killer Baby "Shrimp"article image
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Some Of Earth's Earliest Predators Included Killer Baby "Shrimp"

clock-iconJune 6, 2018

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Studying Tumor Growth Could Explain The Cambrian Explosionarticle image

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Studying Tumor Growth Could Explain The Cambrian Explosionarticle image
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Studying Tumor Growth Could Explain The Cambrian Explosion

clock-iconJanuary 19, 2018

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Half-A-Billion-Year-Old Creature Is Ancestor To Crabs, Millipedes, And Antsarticle image

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Half-A-Billion-Year-Old Creature Is Ancestor To Crabs, Millipedes, And Antsarticle image
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Half-A-Billion-Year-Old Creature Is Ancestor To Crabs, Millipedes, And Ants

clock-iconApril 27, 2017

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508-Million-Year-Old Fossil "Ice Cream Cone With Tentacles" Finally Classifiedarticle image

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508-Million-Year-Old Fossil "Ice Cream Cone With Tentacles" Finally Classifiedarticle image
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508-Million-Year-Old Fossil "Ice Cream Cone With Tentacles" Finally Classified

clock-iconJanuary 12, 2017