In a new study, scientists look closely into “chemical fossils” in rocks, indicating that sponges were alive more than 541 ...

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Between 443.7 and 416 million years ago, three orthocone cephalopods died in Door County in the same spot, at roughly the ...

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At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

Scientists from MIT and elsewhere have identified chemical fossils that may have been left by ancient sponges in rocks more ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

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