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Researchers have discovered a new-to-science species of ancient shark during an ongoing paleontological resource inventory at ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

She adds that besides extinct species, there are also fossils of species still alive today, such as Lingulella chengjiangensis, a widespread Cambrian lingulid brachiopod (a kind of marine mollusk ...

Such fossils are found across the Himalayas, and finds include trilobites, brachiopods, ostracods and crinoids. Almost all sedimentary rocks are formed by water erosion, grinding up rocks over ...

This dentition suggests a diet of crustaceans, worms, and small brachiopods, which it likely crushed ... is an exceptional site for studying marine fossils. The rocks of the Sainte-Geneviève Formation ...

Scientists believe the shark foraged the ocean floor for crustaceans, worms, and small brachiopods. “The fossil discoveries in Mammoth Cave continue to reveal a wealth of new information about ...

worms and small brachiopods found along the sea floor. The new species was identified by researches through fossil teeth collected from deep inside the Ste. Genevieve Formation within Mammoth Cave.

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“The fossil discoveries in Mammoth Cave continue ... larger predators as they foraged on crustaceans, worms, and small brachiopods found along the sea floor,” the release said.