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.
- Professor, Northwest University, Xi'an
We studied 515 million-year-old brachiopod fossils from southern China. These marine invertebrates were common in the geological past.
Death is inevitable for individuals and also for species. With help from the fossil record, paleontologists are piecing together what might make one creature more vulnerable than another.
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