Tag: Ediacaran biota
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.”
Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong
Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.
The Enigmatic Tribrachidium and Trilobozoa
Trilobozoans are unique to the Ediacaran biota; they appeared suddenly 560 million-years-ago in the fossil record without any precursors.
#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum
None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record.
Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum
The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations.