News of ancient and modern species

Dendrogramma enigmatica

Jean Just, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jørgen Olesen [CC-BY-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Tabitha M. Powledge reports on the "discovery of not just a new species, but possibly a new phylum. Possibly even an animal remnant, thought to be extinct, from before the Cambrian Explosion that began about 542 million years ago and gave rise to most of today’s animal life." The preserved organisms were found off the southeastern Australia coast in 1986, Powledge writes. Also, why hasn't anybody covered the hospice care oversight bill recently passed by Congress?

October 4, 2014

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