July 28, 2010
Translating Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone.
"Many of the creatures found in the fossil record from the time immediately preceding the Cambrian are so unlike modern forms that deciphering what they are and how they lived continues to challenge paleontologists."
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Ben there. Almost fell down a mine hole looking for these buggers. Strange to think I might have become a monkey skeleton associated with Precambrian life forms.
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Zat you, Dan??
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Could a been. Yet I still live somehow. I LIVE! Even if only in a diminished, web-like state.
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Meet the 300 million-year-old reptile who truly conquered the land
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Now they've found even older animals (multi-cellular macro fossils) - also from South Australia!
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Another new find! These giant sandworms lived 260 million years ago, also from the pre-dinosaur age... If they infested primitive reptiles the way modern sandworms infest humans, it's a wonder those barefooted reptiles survived the itch!
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"We have found the holes but as yet we haven't found the animals which made them. " This is making me uncomfortable. *calls in dog, shuts windows and doors*