It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but researcher thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates. ...> Full Article
Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal's soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs, according to a paper in Nature. ...> Full Article