A History Of Life

1. Moving one eye to the other side of the head
(Evolutionary innovations/Eocene)

An apparent evolutionary conondrum has been recently solved by the study of some Eocene fossils related to the flatfishes. Matt Friedman of the Chicago University, an expert of fish evolution, has

2. The forgotten ingredient
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

...y to use anything but it to measure the world around us. The instruments we are dealing with are rocks and fossils and the factor of evolution that Darwin badly needed, Time. The difficulty with whi...

3. Kimmeridge Clays and the Sea of Britain
(Paleontological sites/Jurassic Europe)

...itten so many times and his smiling face peeping around every corner. One last beg for future updates: the fossils, we want to see the fossils! ...

4. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...ctive here since the Renaissance and in the sixteenth century the first modern hypotheses on the nature of fossils were being formulated. Contemporary of Andrea Cisalpino, one Michele Mercati (1541-15...

5. Back to the Basin
(Paleontological sites/Paleogene Europe)

...e, a few km north of Damery and some 20 km south of Reims, in the heart of the Champagne, not just for the fossils as you may guess. You can actually walk inside the strata for 200 m, along a laterall...

6. Lower Paleozoic exceptional biota
(Past ecosystems/Shoreface)

... the high-energy conditions met with at the shoreline, making biotic remains easily destroyed. Silurian fossils of the Eramosa Lagerstätte, from the Ontario region include both soft bodied (branchi...

7. What's a mangrove?
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...s, whereas fruits, leaves and wood can be hardly recognized in ancient peat deposits (Plaziat 1995). Such fossils suggest that the modern ecosystem arose at the turn of the early Eocene, during the w...

8. Whale-fall bivalves
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...onal stages at shelfal depths. With this respect, they do much the same as in bathyal environments. Fossils around the Orciano whale testify at least of two of the three successional stages th...