Archeology
Vetulicolian - Strange creatures have distant relatives with humans
Scientists have just placed a bizarre marine creature living on the earth's oceans 500 million years ago into the group.
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Archeology
Discover Cambrian multicellular fossil fossil in China
The pre-Cambrian fossil discovered in the rocks of southern China suggests that the life of complex multicellular organisms appeared at least 600 million years ago.
Archeology
Detecting ancient whale fossils with strange shapes
Researchers have recently discovered evidence of a giant living under the ocean more than 500 million years ago.
Archeology
Excavating strange creatures 500 million years old
The fossil creature shaped like a cigar, lived 520 million years ago was discovered by paleontologist Andrew Smith of the Natural History Museum and colleagues in the se…
Archeology
New discovery of the body of ancient creatures with tentacles
Scientists have shed light on the strange creatures whose tentacles live in the sea 520 million years ago.
Archeology
Discovered the oldest vertebrate creature
Named Coronacollina acula, this creature was from 560-550 million years ago, ie during the Ediacaran period (630-542 million years ago), before the outbreak of life and…
Archeology
Predators have insect eyes
On December 8, Australian scientists announced the discovery of fossil eyes like insect eyes of ancient marine predators more than 500 million years ago, according to AF…
Archeology
Discover giant shrimp fossils, razor-sharp teeth
A giant prehistoric creature shaped like a shrimp once
Archeology
Multicellular organisms may exist before the Cambrian Period
Multicellular organisms can evolve in the pre-Cambrian period, 100 million years earlier than the previous scientific calculations.
Archeology
Root the explosion of life on Earth
One of the most important moments in Earth's life was the Cambrian explosion of life, about 540 million years ago, when complex and multicellular life forms appeared thr…
Archeology
The 390-million-year-old fossil has claws
The link is lacking in previous nail evolution in modern scorpion species and the sam has been identified by the discovery of 390 million year old fossils.
Archeology
The earliest footprint of animals
The fossil record of an aquatic animal shows that animals are walking at least 30 million years earlier than expected.
Archeology
Life evolved through an explosion on earth
The largest diversity of species on earth occurred 542 million years ago in the Cambrian explosion. But scientists argue that a similar and rapid evolutionary explosion…
Archeology
The explosions of life
600 million years ago, just before the Cambrian century many multicellular life forms appeared through evidence of fossils in Ediacara.
Biology
Ancient ecosystem is very similar to today's ecosystem
It is the world where the giant Anomalocaris cups meat of three-lobed beetles, contributing in that world to species that no longer exist on the earth today. But accordi…