Avalon explosion,
Big Bangs,
Bilateria,
Cambrian Explosion,
Cambrian News,
Charnia,
Cnidaria,
comb jellies,
Dickinsonia,
Ediacaran biota,
Ediacaran organisms,
Evolution,
explosions,
fossil record,
Intelligent Design,
Kimberella,
Kimberella series,
Lophotrochozoa,
macro-organisms,
metazoan animals,
precambrian fossils,
Richard Dawkins,
saltations,
stem mollusk,
Yilingia spiciformis
The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Source
Ediacaran fossils,
Ediacaran organisms,
Evolution,
feeding apparatus,
fossils,
gastropods,
grazing,
Kimberella,
Kimberella series,
Kimberichnus,
microbial mats,
Mikhail Fedonkin,
Milan,
molluscan radula,
morphology,
pellets,
proboscis,
pyrite crystals,
scratch marks,
trace fossils,
tubercles,
White Sea
The body fossils are generally positioned at the focal points of the fan-shaped scratch marks. Source
burial,
Calvapilosa,
Cambrian News,
creeping ventral locomotory organ,
digestive system,
dorsum,
Ediacaran organisms,
Evolution,
feeding apparatus,
feeding tracks,
foot,
fossils,
hydrostatics,
Kimberella,
Kimberella series,
mantle,
Mikhail Fedonkin,
mollusks,
monoplacophorans,
muscles,
Ordovician Period,
Parvancorina,
proboscis,
sclerotic teeth,
shells,
teeth
Fossils often leave much room for very different interpretations of relatively poor evidence. Source
ammonium chloride,
animals,
bilaterians,
bivariate analysis,
bottom waters,
Burgess Shale,
Cambrian Explosion,
Cambrian News,
Chengjiang,
death-masks,
Ediacaran Period,
Evolution,
feeding traces,
fossil record,
hyporeliefs,
Kimberella,
Kimberella series,
Konservat Lagerstätten,
latex casts,
limpets,
Maotianshan Shales,
motility,
Precambrian strata,
taphonomy,
trace fossils
The fossilization of Kimberella specimens was most likely based on rapid burial with sand during storm events. Source