Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...
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A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...
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Scientists have discovered a colossal shark that lived 115 million years ago, long before Megalodon. Using rare fossilized vertebrae and modern imaging, researchers reconstructed this ancient apex ...
Oxygen detected just 300 million years after the Big Bang has caused viral claims that cosmology is wrong. But does this ...