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Earth’s interior 80 million years ago with hot structures in yellow to red (darker is shallower) and cold structures in blue (darker is deeper). Ömer Bodur/Nature

March 30, 2022

Volcanoes, diamonds, and blobs: a billion‑year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

Nicolas Flament, University of Wollongong; Andrew Merdith, University of Leeds; Ömer F. Bodur, University of Wollongong, and Simon Williams, Northwest University, Xi'an

Ancient blobs deep inside the Earth gather together and break apart like continents, according to new research.

October 27, 2021

The bryozoan mystery: a new look at an old fossil reveals the origin of these tiny coral‑like creatures

Glenn A Brock, Macquarie University and Luke Strotz, Northwest University, Xi'an

Most modern animals have their roots half a billion years ago in the Cambrian Explosion, but one group was curiously missing from the fossil record - until now.

June 2, 2020

A 515 million‑year‑old freeloader: this nutrient‑stealing marine worm is the oldest known parasite

Luke Strotz, Northwest University, Xi'an and Glenn A Brock, Macquarie University

We studied 515 million-year-old brachiopod fossils from southern China. These marine invertebrates were common in the geological past.

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Volcanoes, diamonds, and blobs: a billion‑year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

The bryozoan mystery: a new look at an old fossil reveals the origin of these tiny coral‑like creatures

A 515 million‑year‑old freeloader: this nutrient‑stealing marine worm is the oldest known parasite

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