piece

'Weird Wonder' fossil discovery adds piece to arthropod evolution puzzle

‘Weird Wonder’ fossil discovery adds piece to arthropod evolution puzzle

By Harvard University, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology November 24, 2022 Artistic reconstruction of Ordovician Mieridduryn bonniae fossils. Credit: Original work by Franz Anthony Welsh fossils from ‘strange wonders’ provide new clues to arthropod evolutionary history. The most famous fossils of the Cambrian explosion of animal life, which occurred more than half a billion …

‘Weird Wonder’ fossil discovery adds piece to arthropod evolution puzzle Read More »

Pristine piece of space rock found hours after hitting Earth may tell us about the birth of the solar system

Pristine piece of space rock found hours after hitting Earth may tell us about the birth of the solar system

At around 10 p.m. on the night of February 28, 2021, a ball of fire crossed the sky over England. The blazing alien visitor was seen by more than 1,000 people, and its descent was filmed by 16 dedicated UK Fireball Alliance meteor tracking cameras and numerous dashboard and doorbell cameras. With the time difference …

Pristine piece of space rock found hours after hitting Earth may tell us about the birth of the solar system Read More »