600-million-year-old fossils from South China—once relegated to the wastebasket—received new attention from the entire international scientific community, yielding the promising field of paleoembryology.
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Post: April 30, 2013 7:33 am, Source: TVOL Exclusive
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In spite of what our history books might have taught us, it was the euthycarcinoids that first stepped foot on the “New World” – while giant slug-like mollusks slimed ashore and primitive crustaceans fed along the land/water's edge.
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Post: April 24, 2013 2:17 pm, Source: TVOL Exclusive
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Tadpole shrimp species evolved and diversified much more recently than the fossil record indicates.
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Post: April 24, 2013 1:03 pm, Source: PeerJ
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A young fossil collector's find turns out to be a new species of azhdarchid,
Vectidraco daisymorrisae, recently described in the journal PLoS ONE.
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Post: April 23, 2013 2:04 pm, Source: PLoS ONE
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Fossilized embryos are the ‘missing links’ that can help bridge the gap between the ambiguous fossils that first appear in the Ediacaran and all the diverse taxa that exist today.
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Post: April 17, 2013 10:11 am, Source: TVOL EXclusive
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Our molar roots develop a year or more before our molars erupt--a remnant from our
Homo erectus predecessors.
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Post: April 16, 2013 3:33 pm, Source: PloS One
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A group of researchers is simulating primordial Earth conditions to discover how life came to use phosphorous as its energy storage source. Most interesting--this phosphorous probably came from outer space.
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Post: April 10, 2013 1:36 pm, Source: newscientist.com
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