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With 30 000 lenses, these fossils don’t need glasses
Dr Diego Garcia-Bellido has been conducting some interesting work on Emu Bay in Kangaroo Island. The most recent research was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology and involved the controversial findings that bizzare fossils called “vetulicolians” were in fact, distant cousins of humans. The new vetulicolian fossils discovered at the Emu Bay site are an astounding 500 million years […]
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14 million years of history in 25 minutes
After the recent interesting findings from a fossil site on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Dr Diego Garcia-Bellido was invited to have a chat with Ian Henschke on the 891 ABC Radio Adelaide mornings program. In this podcast, Diego discusses the secrets of the universe and the secrets of life through a summary of the last 14 […]
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Media Release: Ancient fossils confirmed among our strangest cousins
More than 100 years since they were first discovered, some of the world’s most bizarre fossils have been identified as distant relatives of humans, thanks to the work of University of Adelaide researchers. The fossils belong to 500-million-year-old blind water creatures, known to scientists as “vetulicolians” (pronounced: ve-TOO-lee-coal-ee-ans). Alien-like in appearance, these marine creatures were […]
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