Arthropods formed orderly lines 480 million years ago
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRESEARCHERS studied fossilised Moroccan Ampyx trilobites , which lived 480 million years ago and showed that the trilobites had probably been buried in their positions — all oriented in the same direction. Scientists deduced that these Ampyx processions may illustrate a kind of collective behavior adopted in response to cyclic environmental disturbances. Though our understanding […]
Giant ‘human-sized’ monster…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have identified a new species of giant penguin from fossils discovered in New Zealand. The extinct penguin lived in the Paleocene Epoch between 66 million and 56 million years ago, according to the Canterbury Museum. Taller than the modern Emperor Penguin, the penguins, named Crossvallia waiparensis, stood about 5 feet and weighed up to […]
Fossil teeth from Kenya solve ancient monkey mystery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE teeth of a new fossil monkey, unearthed in the badlands of northwest Kenya, help fill a 6-million-year void in Old World monkey evolution, according to a study by U.S. and Kenyan scientists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery of 22-millionyear-old fossilised monkey teeth — described as belonging to […]