Archaeologists have found an ape fossil in Egypt and now believe we’ve been searching for our common ancestor in the wrong place all along

Researchers have found an ancient ape fossil that suggests that we may have been searching for our common ancestors in the wrong place all along.

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Fossils from China reveal ancient animals predating the Cambrian explosion

📰 Original title: Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet

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#science #fossils #evolution #paleontology

Fossils from China reveal ancient animals predating the Cambrian explosion

A groundbreaking discovery in southwest China has revealed fossils from over 540 million years ago, offering new insights into the origins of complex animal life. Researchers from Oxford University…

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Fossils from China reveal ancient animals predating the Cambrian explosion

📰 Original title: Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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Fossils from China reveal ancient animals predating the Cambrian explosion

A groundbreaking discovery in southwest China has revealed fossils from over 540 million years ago, offering new insights into the origins of complex animal life. Researchers from Oxford University…

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World's Oldest Known 'Octopus' Turns Out to Be An Entirely Different Animal

A fossil that was fundamental to describing the evolution of octopuses turns out to have been an impostor, all along.

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Tom Gauld for New Scientist cartoon. #humor #science #paleontology #dinosaurs #physics
Currently in the Western Science Center #Paleontology Lab:
Several Pleistocene horses from Riverside Co., CA,
A Pleistocene tortoise from Blythe, CA,
Parts of several Cretaceous dinosaurs and tortoises from New Mexico,
A Colombian mammoth scapula from Murrieta, CA,
Several pieces of a Pliocene right whale from Santa Cruz, CA,
A Miocene rhino jaw from Kyrgyzstan,
Two Miocene sperm whale skulls from VA
and a modern cow skull being dissected for our dermestid beetle colony. #museum #palaeontology

Did you miss our Paleo 2026 symposium? No worries! We're slowly posting the recordings of the talks, and the first one was released today.

Join Dr. Julien Divay as he explains the surprising utility of fish microvertebrate fossils, what they can tell us about the palaeoenvironment, and what further work is needed!

https://youtu.be/XuSDwXmxclQ

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #fish #alberta

Tracing Faunal and Environmental Changes Through Time: The Power of Fish Microvertebrate Fossils

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Smilodon, a prehistoric sabre-toothed cat, had a pair of 28 cm long canine teeth. Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch until roughly 10,000 years ago. #Paleontology
Complex life emerged before the Cambrian explosion. Via @live_science #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #paleontology

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Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandworm

Weird Dune-like sandworms emerged millions of years earlier than the Cambrian explosion.

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🦴 Watch over 150 million years of #fossil evidence from around the world in this #data viz from the American Museum of Natural #History. You can see when and where #dinosaurs appeared on #Earth as the continents shifted from the Late Triassic onward.

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#animals #birds #cretaceous #dataviz #fossils #informationdesign #jurassic #maps #nature #paleontology #pangea #science #spinosaurus #titanosaur #triassic #trex #tksst #video