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    A mid-Cambrian tunicate and the deep origin of the ascidiacean body plan - Nature Communications - 10 month(s) ago

    Our understanding of the origins of tunicates, an important group of filter-feeding marine invertebrate chordates, is limited due to a poor fossil record. Here, the authors present a 500 million year old tunicate fossil, demonstrating that the modern tunicate body plan was established shortly after the Cambrian Explosion.

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      Our understanding of the origins of tunicates, a filter-feeding marine chordate, is limited due to a poor fossil record. Here, Nanglu et al. present a 500 million year old tunicate fossil. @KNanglu @InvertebratePal @PlLife2 @MCZHarvard #FossilFriday https://t.co/7yovOiKggW

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    Family discovers 12-million-year-old whale skull in Maryland - 1 year(s) ago

    The Goddard family discovered a 12-million-year-old whale skull while hunting for sharks’ teeth in Maryland. The fossil, which weighs 650lbs, is the most complete of its kind ever found.

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      'We won the World Cup of Paleontology': Family discovers 12-million-year-old whale skull at the Chesapeake Bay - and it took researchers months to remove the 650-pound fossil #FossilFriday https://t.co/RZ7NAQTbbs https://t.co/fJxS1N5uyc

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    A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae - 3 year(s) ago

    Until now, the first fossil evidence of land plants was from the Devonian era 420 million years ago. However, molecular phylogenetic evidence has suggested an earlier origin in the Cambrian. Strother and Foster describe an assemblage of fossil spores from Ordivician deposits in Australia dating to approximately 480 million years ago (see the Perspective by Gensel). These spores are of…

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      The discovery of 480-million-year-old spore-like microfossils in northwestern Australia may represent an evolutionary “missing link” between terrestrial plants and their algal ancestors, a new Science study suggests. https://t.co/bexSghp1xr #ScienceResearch #FossilFriday https://t.co/7FudBTmjir

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    A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher Ramla, Israel - 3 year(s) ago

    Our understanding of the origin, distribution, and evolution of early humans and their close relatives has been greatly refined by recent new information. Adding to this trend, Hershkovitz et al. have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown archaic Homo population, the “Nesher Ramla Homo ” (see the Perspective by Mirazon Lahr). The authors present comprehensive qualitative and quantitative…

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      In two companion Science studies, researchers reveal a previously unknown population of archaic hominin—the “Nesher Ramla Homo”—from a recently excavated site in Israel dated to roughly 140,000 to 120,000 years ago. #FossilFriday https://t.co/XFKrZmLC1h; https://t.co/MQhP4g6EFa https://t.co/PViTzaeHX5

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    A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher Ramla, Israel - 3 year(s) ago

    Our understanding of the origin, distribution, and evolution of early humans and their close relatives has been greatly refined by recent new information. Adding to this trend, Hershkovitz et al. have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown archaic Homo population, the “Nesher Ramla Homo ” (see the Perspective by Mirazon Lahr). The authors present comprehensive qualitative and quantitative…

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      In two companion Science studies, researchers reveal a previously unknown population of archaic hominin—the “Nesher Ramla Homo”—from a recently excavated site in Israel dated to roughly 140,000 to 120,000 years ago. #FossilFriday https://t.co/XFKrZmLC1h; https://t.co/MQhP4g6EFa https://t.co/cRhDdfXI01

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    The early origin of a birdlike inner ear and the evolution of dinosaurian movement and vocalization - 3 year(s) ago

    Extinct species had complex behaviors, just like modern species, but fossils generally reveal little of these details. New approaches that allow for the study of structures that relate directly to behavior are greatly improving our understanding of the lifestyles of extinct animals (see the Perspective by Witmer). Hanson et al. looked at three-dimensional scans of archosauromorph inner ears and…

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      New Science research evaluates the inner ear structures across extinct and living archosaurs, revealing the earliest instances of flight ability in dinosaurs and potentially the earliest emergence of parent-offspring vocal communication. ($) https://t.co/UbnBuODu6w #FossilFriday https://t.co/Gos2itGu2j

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