With no identifiable body parts, it’s hard to know how these fossilized creatures lived. A new approach models how the ocean’s water would interact with their unique shapes – hinting at their lifestyle.
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Were legs a quirk of genetic mutation rather than an evolutionary inevitability?
Uncovering the monsters of the prehistoric deep.
The rise and fall of the essential elements for life could have influenced the way life evolved over many millions of years.
There’s a lot more to palaeontology than just dinosaurs, as these incredible lifeforms demonstrate.
In a recent paper in Nature, we described a strange marine animal, called Tamisiocaris. They were giants that swam in the oceans over 500 million years ago. They had strange looking appendages on their…
The sudden appearance of a range of modern animals about half a billion years ago, during evolution’s “big bang”, has intrigued and puzzled generations of biologists from Charles Darwin onwards. A new…
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of New England
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Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology, Flinders University
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Merit Researcher, Natural History Museum
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Head of Palaeontology Division at the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe
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Associate Professor, Geobiology, Lund University
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Adelaide University ; South Australian Museum
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Lecturer in Macroevolution, University of Bristol
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University