500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...
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Surprising fossils suggest early animals survived outside of water
A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...
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During The "Boring Billion", Earth Was Weirdly Mountainless – Then It All Changed
One billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even if you were to go sightseeing during this period, you’d be grossly ...
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A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals
Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.
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Finding the 'missing link'
Modern single-celled holozoa include the most basal living animals and the fossil discovered shows an ... within a multicellular mass—existed in unicellular organisms a billion years ago, some 400 ...
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Interstellar Visitor May Have Scrambled Our Solar System
She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the ... of Jupiter may have flown through our solar system some 4 billion years ago and warped the orbits of many planets.