Fossils

What do you get when you flip a fossilized “jellyfish” upside down? The answer, it turns out, might be an anemone. Fossil blobs once thought to be ancient jellyfish were actually a type of burrowing sea anemone, scientists propose March…
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A species that lived about 520 million years ago and was thought to be the oldest known bryozoan is instead a type of colony-forming algae, a new study proposes. Bryozoans are filter-feeding, tentacle-bearing animals that live in…
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Paleontologists have discovered a number of fossils in northeastern Colombia belonging to a type of flat-toothed shark that lived millions of years ago. The Lebanese news agency indicated that these fossils belong to a type called…
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