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11/20/2008
Deep-sea protists may explain trace fossil evidence attributed to ancient animals (EurekAlert!)
( Cell Press ) A new discovery challenges one of the strongest arguments in favor of the idea that animals with bilateral symmetry--those that, like us, have two halves that are roughly mirror images of each other--existed before their obvious appearance in the fossil record during the early Cambrian, some 542 million years ago. Researchers report the first evidence that trace fossils ...
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11/20/2008
Single-celled giant upends early evolution (MSNBC)
Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.
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11/20/2008
Single-Celled Giant Upends Early Evolution (Animal Planet)
The tracks of a single-celled organism forces scientists to rethink early evolution.
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11/20/2008
Seabed tracks suggest new origin of animal life (Nature)
First evidence that earliest fossils could be attributed to protozoans.
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10/27/2008
Student's detective work helps map oil-rich formation (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
An estimated 500 billion barrels of oil lies within the Bakken Formation, a vast underground layer of rock covering Saskatchewan, Manitoba, North Dakota, and Montana.
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| Dinosaur Tracks and Ichnology - Provides a number of resources on trace fossils which are any marks, or other evidence, left behind by an animal while it was still alive.Ichnology - The study of tracks, trails, footprints and other animal traces. Photographs of a number of modern, archaeological and paleontological traces.Ichnology Research Group - A multidisciplinary team of graduate and postgraduate researchers at the University of Alberta led by Professor S. George Pemberton working on trace fossil problems.Ichnology: The Study of Tracks and Traces - Ewan Wolff of the Montana State University Geoscience Education Web Development Team, provides links to a number of resources on traces, tracks and trackways.Precambrian Fossils - Possible Precambrian trace fossils collected in the Van Horn region of Texas.Virtual Ichnology - Computer model of trace fossil development through time. Part of the Computational Paleontology website.
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