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albionmoonlight · 07-29-2021, 09:03 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ponge-animals/

This isn't quite as cutting edge as some of the stuff here, but is still pretty cool. Probable fossils of animals millions of years older than any previously known.

I am low-key fascinated by paleontology in large part because trying to glean any information from such a scant record really shows the limits of human ingenuity.

So many of these stories end up being like "We found that these 300,000,000 year old rocks had slightly more iron in them than we expected, so [lots and lots of science later] we are pretty sure that fish developed eyes independently of land animals"

07-29-2021, 09:03 AM	#28
albionmoonlight Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: North Carolina	https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ponge-animals/ This isn't quite as cutting edge as some of the stuff here, but is still pretty cool. Probable fossils of animals millions of years older than any previously known. I am low-key fascinated by paleontology in large part because trying to glean any information from such a scant record really shows the limits of human ingenuity. So many of these stories end up being like "We found that these 300,000,000 year old rocks had slightly more iron in them than we expected, so [lots and lots of science later] we are pretty sure that fish developed eyes independently of land animals"