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Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought " and a new fossil site in northwestern Canada suggests it all started in the deep sea, not the shallow waters where most early fossils show up
18+ min ago (804+ words) Space Daily A new fossil discovery, published on May 20, 2026, in the journal Science Advances, has, on close examination, given the wider research community reason to revise this framing. The discovery, from a remote site in the Mackenzie Mountains of Canada's…...
T. rex didn't evolve tiny arms because its body got bigger " it evolved tiny arms because its jaws got more powerful, according to a new study of 82 meat-eating dinosaur species that found the same pattern repeating across giant predators
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Ancient lungfish fossils refine early vertebrate story
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (734+ words) In two separate studies, researchers have re-examined fossil material from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia and described a new lungfish species from 410 million-year-old rocks in Yunnan, South China, providing new insights into how early lobe-finned fishes diversified…...
Ordovician mass extinction cleared the way for jawed fishes to rise
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (285+ words) Fossils indicate that no animals resembling Sacabambaspis survived past the Late Ordovician extinction, underscoring how severely the crisis pruned early vertebrate lineages. In contrast, jawed vertebrates that managed to persist through the event later diversified into the major fish groups…...
Gels may have given early Earth chemistry a place to organize into life
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (248+ words) The team describes a prebiotic gel-first framework in which semi-solid gel matrices, resembling modern microbial biofilms, hosted key steps in the origin of life. These gels could have concentrated small molecules, retained useful components, and buffered environmental fluctuations, allowing complex…...
Ancient deep ocean rocks shown to be long-term carbon storage reservoirs
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (362+ words) London, UK (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Rock samples collected from beneath the Atlantic Ocean reveal that lava rubble accumulating on the seafloor can store carbon dioxide for tens of millions of years. Research led by the University of Southampton involved analyzing lava…...
The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (520+ words) "We don't know exactly what these organisms would have looked like back then, but they absolutely would have lived in the ocean, they would have been soft-bodied, and we presume they didn't have a silica skeleton," says Roger Summons, the…...