Tag: annelids
Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning
Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals.
Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma
“It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant.”
A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges
The most celebrated Precambrian sponge may not be a sponge at all. Watch Darwinians try to coax it into spongehood.
Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?
Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm.
Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans
Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation.