About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought.
Scientists analysing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of ...
New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...
Scientists say grooves on a rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea may have been made by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake.
A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea jellyfish, which belong to a 500 million year-old ...
Scientists analysing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of ...
For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...
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Among the earliest known vertebrates some had 4 eyes, and it’s amazing what they’ve become
The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...
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