Archive for July 6th, 2012

579-million-year-old fossils found in Newfoundland

A team of British and Canadian scientists probing a famous fossil site in Newfoundland and Labrador has discovered traces of some of the earliest animal remains on Earth — a 579-million-year-old nest of petrified “babies” born to a primitive, fern-shaped marine organism known as a rangeomorph and then promptly buried in ash from a primordial […]