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
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
