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3 weeks ago |
nhm.ac.uk | James Ashworth
By James AshworthFirst published 14 May 2025A hunter dating back more than half a billion years has been discovered in Canada. Mosura fentoni was a trailblazer for modern arthropods, developing adaptations that some crustaceans and arachnids re-evolved millions of years later. A finger-sized fossil has shed new light on the diversity of ancient arthropods. More than 500 million years ago, many major animal groups first appeared on Earth in a burst of evolution known as the Cambrian Explosion.
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2 months ago |
nhm.ac.uk | James Ashworth
Caught in the actThe slab was found in the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana, USA. These rocks are renowned for preserving fossils in fine detail, including the remains of sharks, worms and even an octopus ancestor named after former US President Joe Biden. They’re the last remnants of a marine ecosystem that existed over 320 million years ago in a monsoon climate of alternating dry seasons and heavy rain.
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nhm.ac.uk | James Ashworth
The murky Middle JurassicThe Middle Jurassic is notoriously difficult to study because of its relative lack of land-based fossils. Volcanic eruptions in what is now southern Africa and Antarctica led to rapid and extreme climate change that caused sea levels to rise sharply. As a result, there was less space for the fossils of land-based animals during this time. This means that fossils of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other Middle Jurassic wildlife are very rare.
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nhm.ac.uk | James Ashworth
Linnaean classificationCarl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, was an eighteenth-century Swedish scientist who’s often known as the ‘father of taxonomy’. Having developed a passion for plants at a young age, he would go on to revolutionise the science of classification. As a botanist, Carl Linnaeus would have been used to the long, formal Latin descriptions used to name plants.
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nhm.ac.uk | Josh Davis |Beatrice Boutayre |James Ashworth
By Josh Davis, Beatrice Boutayre and James AshworthThe ancient human species Homo luzonensis is one of the most recent branches to be added to the human evolutionary tree. It’s also one of our most mysterious ancient relatives, with only a handful of Homo luzonensis fossils discovered so far. Find out more about this miniature member of our extended family. The story of human evolution is not straightforward.
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