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550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil find fills gap in its family tree
Interesting Engineering· 4 days ago“If you extrapolate back, then perhaps the first ones were soft-bodied creatures with entirely...
Team finds 'missing' 550 million-year-old sea sponge
Futurity· 3 days agoResearchers have discovered a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil, filling in a gap in the evolutionary family tree of one of the earliest animals ...
Move Over Daddy Longlegs, Meet The 48-Million-Year-Old Iridescent "Grandpa Longlegs"
IFLScience· 5 days agoBright and shiny animals are all over the place, from deep sea worm species to electric blue...
Early dinosaurs' complex lost world revealed: "Unique importance"
Newsweek· 6 days agoA fossil site of "unique importance" has shed light on a lost prehistoric ecosystem where early...
Ocean economic boom threatens many potentially conscious species
The Hill· 2 days agoNew research into creatures from sperm whales to octopuses, reef fish to hermit crabs, suggests that...
Where a museum once overlooked the sea, Santa Cruz home hits market for $7.8M
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoA curio museum, complete with circus animals and exotic birds, once stood on this location, nearly a...
Ancient Porcupine Discovery Solves Evolutionary Mystery 10 Million Years in the Making
SciTechDaily· 16 hours agoNew findings from a complete porcupine skeleton in Florida reveal a much earlier origin for North...
Sunfish washes up on Gearhart beach, north of Seaside
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland· 3 days agoOn June 3, a hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore, catching the attention of a New Zealand-based...
Fishy mystery of marine reptile solved
Science Daily· 5 days agoNow scientists from the University of Bristol and University of Southampton can reveal that bones found in Triassic rocks in 1935 are one of the last thalattosaurs, a large sea</ ...
Indiana State Museum set to open 2 new exhibits
WISH-TV Indianapolis· 4 days agoINDIANAPOLIS (WISH)– Two new exhibits are set to open this weekend at the Indiana State Museum. Good Night Forest and Ancient Seas will open Saturday,...