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The hidden chemical process that saved 570-million-year-old soft animals in sandstone

For more than a century, the Ediacara Biota has quietly confused scientists. These fossils, dating back around 570 million years, capture soft, squishy organisms preserved in sandstone, which is ...
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On the sandstone fossils of Connecticut River / by James Deane

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The origins of complex life pushed back to before the Cambrian

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.
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On the fossil foot-marks in the red sandstone of Pottsville, Pennsylvania / by Isaac Lea

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