'Oldest octopus' fossil is no octopus at all, scans reveal

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...

Fossils from China show complex life evolved millions of years earlier than once thought

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...
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World’s oldest octopus fossil from Guinness World Records was misidentified — here's what it really is

Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...
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Earth's early sponges were soft: Scientists close fossil record gap

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This evidence has proven highly controversial, as it predates the fossil record of sponges by a minimum of 100 million years. Now an ...
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The evolution and fossil record of parasitism coevolution and paleoparasitological techniques Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley, editors

Chapter 1. The fossil record of parasitism: Its extent and taphonomic constraints -- Chapter 2. Importance of data on fossil symbioses for parasite-host evolution -- Chapter 3. Biodiversity and ...
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The evolution and fossil record of parasitism identification and macroevolution of parasites Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley, editors

Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record? / Tommy L. F. Leung -- Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa / George Poinar ...
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2.65 million-year-old fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia opens up current understandings of human evolution

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...
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Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...
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Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...
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Baleen Whales And Their Fossil Record

The fossil record of baleen whales (Mysticeti) offers a window into one of the most dramatic evolutionary transitions among mammals. Early cetaceans evolved from terrestrial artiodactyl ancestors into ...
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Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...
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George Gaylord Simpson: Natural Selection and the Fossil Record

The early part of the twentieth century saw evolutionary theory embattled by disagreements over Darwin's emphasis on natural selection. The then-newly rediscovered work of Gregor Mendel in the ...