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Tag Archives: Cambrian

The Worms That Turned
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The Worms That Turned

Posted on January 31, 2017 by sarah • Leave a comment

New research on fossils from Newfoundland and Labrador, published in Geological Society Special Publication ‘Earth System Evolution and Early Life: A Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier’, provides new insights into exactly which burrowing animals were the most important engineers. Continue reading →

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Murchison’s Peacetime Map of Siluria

Posted on November 19, 2012 by paul • Leave a comment

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison spent much of the early 1830s stomping round Wales and the West Midlands immersed in an oceanic world of metre-long sea scorpions. A world which later gave rise to both leeches and creatures with backbones.  Above the waters, plants began to grow on Avalonia.  It was the dawn of the age of … Continue reading →

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