Meet 4 ‘Extinct’ Animals That Were Miraculously Rediscovered (Hint: One Was An Ancient Fish Found In A Fishing Net In 1938)

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon.

Oldest known 3D burrow systems uncovered in Hubei's Shibantan biota

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has made ...

How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

The 'Boring Billion' wasn't so boring after all! Period previously known as the dullest time in our planet's history actually created the conditions for LIFE, study reveals

Earth's 'Boring Billion' created the conditions for complex life to exist, report scientists at the universities of Sydney ...

Researchers identify million-year orbital cycles as 'pacemaker' for Earth's ancient oxygenation pulses

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...
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Orbital Cycles Drive Ancient Earth's Oxygen Surges

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

3-Foot "Shrimp" Discovered—Dominated Prehistoric Seas

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...