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A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62
In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms ...
A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.
Scientists in South Korea identified Acanthochitona feroxa, a new chiton species long mistaken for a nearly identical mollusk.
A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...
Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...
Morning Overview on MSN
9 prehistoric animals that still walk the Earth today
Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...
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Golden ammonites peek out from black shale: What makes these 183-million-year-old fossils so sparkly?
The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They might be opalized or rainbow-colored, or perhaps glittering like an ornate lump ...
A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest ...
When we think of villages, we usually imagine something uniquely human: planned neighbourhoods, infrastructure and communities working together to survive. But across the natural world, many animals ...
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