Article: Enigmas overturned by Chinese fossils. (problematic Cambrian fossils now classified in the phylum Onychophora)

Article: New creatures from Cambrian. (fossils found in ...
Science News;  November 16, 1985 ;     700+ words ... ... provided scientists with a distinctly rare glimpse of life near its very beginnings. Now a new assemblage of Middle Cambrian fossils has been unearthed, giving paleontologists another peek at early life. The fossils were found on Mt. Stephen, 5 kilometers ...

Article: What has 14 stilts, seven tentacles and no eyes? (Cambrian ...
The Economist (US);  April 30, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... He managed to put all the creatures in the Burgess shale, novel though they were, in to the established categories for Cambrian fossils. So their extraordinary diversity was hidden from the next generation of paleontologists. The natural world is divided ...

Article: World's Earliest Cambrian Fossils Found in SW China
Xinhua English Newswire;  January 31, 2000 ;     487 words ...Chinese and German scientists in southwest China's Guizhou Province claim they have discovered the world's earliest fossilized animals belonging to the Cambrian period. Studies of the fossils, unearthed in Zhongnan village in the city of Zunyi, reveal that the "Cambrian explosion" was not as abrupt

Article: One for the ages: Dating of Cambrian fossils poses ...
The Washington Times;  June 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The search for Earth's earliest life has taken paleontologists to ancient rocks in Africa and Australia - and to the realization that analyzing tiny fossils from eons ago is fraught with imprecision. Paleobiologists in quest of the earliest bacteria and algae are looking at fossils they date to

Article: Trilobites: not forced off the block. (passive ...
Science News;  July 11, 1992 ;     626 words ...A scuba diver exploring Earth's oceans during the late Cambrian period, 520 million years ago, would have found the waters filled with trilobites -- small, oval arthropods that are a favorite of fossil collectors. Eventually though, the trilobites faded in importance, while mollusks and other

Article: Tracing the earth's stunning history; The Crucible of Creation: ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 11, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... different than it is? This is what Conway Morris has provided. The crucible of creation ... precarious existence on its su rface. Conway Morris is a palaeontologist who has spent ... illustrated by a multitude of photographs. Conway Morris interweaves his fascinating narrative ...

Article: Outraged at Conway Morris's "Science".(Creation and ...
Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...I read Simon Conway Morris's book excerpt (in Vol. 10 No. 3) with a growing sense of outrage. Apparently he used to be a scientist? Now it's hard ...