A fossil discovered in a cabinet at the museum in London has pushed the origins of the contemporary lizard back 35 million years.
The world’s oldest living organisms are stromatolites, which are living fossils. The term “layered rock” literally refers to stromatolite.
Berlin museums hold a unique position among both European and German museums. Berlin, the most developed artistically and culturally among European capitals, and entwined with all areas of art, attracts a large number of visitors throughout the year.
Plankton’s endurance to prior global warming events is revealed by the discovery of “ghost” fossils.
An multinational team of experts from the Natural History Museum, UCL (University College London), the University of Florence, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History discovered a unique sort of fossilisation that had previously gone unnoticed.
The ‘ghost’ fossils are imprints of coccolithophores, which are single-celled plankton. Their discovery is altering our understanding of how climate change affects plankton in the oceans.