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This mysterious 407-million-year-old fossil may represent a previously unknown branch of life
In 1843, Canadian geologist William Edmond Logan discovered a large, log-shaped fossil along the shores of Gaspé Bay in ...
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Mysterious giants could be a whole new kind of life that no longer exists
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have suggested ...
Fossilized microscopic algae offer insights into historic environmental conditions and provide a clearer picture of how the ...
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