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Meet Quaestio Simpsonorum: The Oldest Asymmetrical Animal Found in Australia
A recent study has identified Quaestio simpsonorum, a 555-million-year-old asymmetrical animal found in Australia’s Nilpena Ediacara National Park. This creature, which moved like a primitive vacuum cleaner, featured a unique backward question-mark shape on its back, representing a significant evolutionary development. Fossilised tracks suggest i...
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400 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Oldest Evidence Of Fungal Disease
Researchers discover a 407-million-year-old fossilized fungus, named Potteromyces asteroxylicola, in the Rhynie Chert, shedding light on early disease history and fungi's role in shaping Earth.
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Oldest Known Jellyfish Fossil Ever Found Is Over 500 Million Years Old
This ancient jellyfish closely resembles its modern counterparts, measuring about 20 centimetres long, with a bell-shaped body and over 90 tentacles around the edge.
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'Oldest Animal' Fossil Found At Bhimbetka Is Actually A Beehive, Claim Indian Scientists
The "fossil," which attracted a lot of interest and was covered by international media, turned out to be something entirely different.
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Scientists Find World's Oldest Fossil Gnat From 247 Million Years Ago
The fossil was discovered in Mallorca a few years ago and has been named after Josep Juerez, the man who found it during a palaeontological survey.
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Oldest Fossils Of Remarkable Marine Reptiles Found In Arctic
Researchers said they have found remains of the earliest-known ichthyosaur, which lived approximately 2 million years after Earth's worst mass extinction that ended the Permian Period
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Scientists Discover 'World's Oldest Meal', Give Clues About Our Animal Ancestors
The scientists analysed ancient fossils containing preserved phytosterol molecules - natural chemical products found in plants - that remained from the animals' last meal.
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Australian Rocks May Hold Clues For Mission Searching For Life On Mars
The rocks in question are stromatolites situated in the Pilbara Craton of the region.
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Fossilised Face of Oldest Human to Have Lived in Europe Unearthed in Spain
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. Before this, the human fossils found from level 9 or TE9 of the site in 2007 were the oldest. They belonged to two individuals wh...
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Yunnanozoans Are Oldest and Most Primitive Stem Vertebrate, Researchers Conclusively Identify
A group of scientists have identified that the fossil records of yunnanozoans, an extinct creature that lived 518 million years ago in the Cambrian Period, are the oldest known stem vertebrates. Stem vertebrates refer to creatures that were vertebrates, i.e. possessing a spinal column, but have now gone extinct though have closely related living ve...
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Billion-Year-Old Chinese Seaweed May Be The Oldest Green Plant Fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
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3.7 Billion Year Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Scientists Trace 'World's Oldest Colours' From Africa
The fossils range from blood red to deep purple in their concentrated form, and bright pink when diluted.
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200,000-Year-Old Human Jawbone Discovered In Israel Cave Might Be The "Oldest"
A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known.
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530-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Contain World's Oldest Eye: Study
A 530-million-year-old fossil of an extinct sea creature contains what could be the oldest eye ever discovered, a study has found.
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Meet Quaestio Simpsonorum: The Oldest Asymmetrical Animal Found in Australia
A recent study has identified Quaestio simpsonorum, a 555-million-year-old asymmetrical animal found in Australia’s Nilpena Ediacara National Park. This creature, which moved like a primitive vacuum cleaner, featured a unique backward question-mark shape on its back, representing a significant evolutionary development. Fossilised tracks suggest i...
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400 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Oldest Evidence Of Fungal Disease
Researchers discover a 407-million-year-old fossilized fungus, named Potteromyces asteroxylicola, in the Rhynie Chert, shedding light on early disease history and fungi's role in shaping Earth.
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Oldest Known Jellyfish Fossil Ever Found Is Over 500 Million Years Old
This ancient jellyfish closely resembles its modern counterparts, measuring about 20 centimetres long, with a bell-shaped body and over 90 tentacles around the edge.
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'Oldest Animal' Fossil Found At Bhimbetka Is Actually A Beehive, Claim Indian Scientists
The "fossil," which attracted a lot of interest and was covered by international media, turned out to be something entirely different.
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Scientists Find World's Oldest Fossil Gnat From 247 Million Years Ago
The fossil was discovered in Mallorca a few years ago and has been named after Josep Juerez, the man who found it during a palaeontological survey.
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Oldest Fossils Of Remarkable Marine Reptiles Found In Arctic
Researchers said they have found remains of the earliest-known ichthyosaur, which lived approximately 2 million years after Earth's worst mass extinction that ended the Permian Period
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Scientists Discover 'World's Oldest Meal', Give Clues About Our Animal Ancestors
The scientists analysed ancient fossils containing preserved phytosterol molecules - natural chemical products found in plants - that remained from the animals' last meal.
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Australian Rocks May Hold Clues For Mission Searching For Life On Mars
The rocks in question are stromatolites situated in the Pilbara Craton of the region.
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Fossilised Face of Oldest Human to Have Lived in Europe Unearthed in Spain
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. Before this, the human fossils found from level 9 or TE9 of the site in 2007 were the oldest. They belonged to two individuals wh...
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Yunnanozoans Are Oldest and Most Primitive Stem Vertebrate, Researchers Conclusively Identify
A group of scientists have identified that the fossil records of yunnanozoans, an extinct creature that lived 518 million years ago in the Cambrian Period, are the oldest known stem vertebrates. Stem vertebrates refer to creatures that were vertebrates, i.e. possessing a spinal column, but have now gone extinct though have closely related living ve...
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Billion-Year-Old Chinese Seaweed May Be The Oldest Green Plant Fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
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3.7 Billion Year Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Scientists Trace 'World's Oldest Colours' From Africa
The fossils range from blood red to deep purple in their concentrated form, and bright pink when diluted.
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200,000-Year-Old Human Jawbone Discovered In Israel Cave Might Be The "Oldest"
A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known.
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530-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Contain World's Oldest Eye: Study
A 530-million-year-old fossil of an extinct sea creature contains what could be the oldest eye ever discovered, a study has found.
