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A new treasure trove of Cambrian fossils

Posted on July 10, 2025July 10, 2025 by Sciworthy

Paleontologists discovered a new set of fossils from the ancient ancestors of animals in rocks from China.

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    When did the Galápagos tortoises become giant?

    Posted on October 3, 2024June 25, 2025 by Aubrey Zerkle

    Researchers analyzed new fossils from Ecuador that suggested the ancestors of Galápagos giant tortoises inhabited northern South America…

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      How quickly did life recover from the end-Permian mass extinction?

      Posted on June 17, 2024June 26, 2025 by Sciworthy

      Paleontologists described exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a complex marine ecosystem that developed within 1 million years of a…

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        A trilobite’s last supper

        Posted on February 12, 2024June 25, 2025 by Aubrey Zerkle

        Paleontologists described a trilobite fossil preserved in 3D with its gut contents intact.

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          How smart were the dinosaurs?

          Posted on March 2, 2023June 25, 2025 by Aubrey Zerkle

          A researcher from Vanderbilt University inferred dinosaur intelligence from fossilized skulls. She used the skulls to estimate the number of…

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            Hunting for fossilized microbes

            Posted on January 28, 2019March 12, 2024 by Sciworthy

            We’ve all heard of hunting for fossils to learn about the Earth’s past, but what if you wanted to learn about the microbes that lived…

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