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Home of the Evans lab at the @amnh.org studying fossils of Soft Life Across Boundaries (SLAB). Sharing news and milestones of our research on the oldest animals and other exceptionally preserved extinct creatures.
(1/8) For #FossilFriday – What can ~555-million-year-old fossils tell us about the earliest animal behaviors? Excited to share a new article with Blakely Webb, @chemosymbiosis.bsky.social, Bill Parker & @marydroser.bsky.social in Scientific Reports investigating evidence of motility in Spriggina
This handedness may be a clue that Spriggina had a surprisingly advanced nervous system, giving new insights into how complex brains evolved! Read more about the findings, led by Scott Evans (@fossilslablab.bsky.social), an assistant curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Museum.👇
Earliest Evidence of “Right-Handedness” in Animals | AMNH
New research suggests Spriggina floundersi preferred bending to the right, making it the oldest known example of “handedness.”
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Are you right- or left-handed? You may have something in common with this 550-million-year-old animal! 🤯 👉 Meet Spriggina—the world’s first “right-handed” animal! Long before dinosaurs, this little organism crawled along a slime-covered seafloor and preferred bending to the right.
Happy #FossilFriday from the invertebrate paleontology collections @amnh.org where the newest (and first!) fossil SLAB lab member, Postdoc Prescott Vayda, and Colorado College intern, Kevin Gallegos Hernandez, are investigating some strange creatures from the Devonian of Pennsylvania!
THE BONEY AWARDS - The award show for fossil records, May 27 at 7pm Bizzare awards, red carpet drama, and an interview with a paleontologist! + Games, Sketches and More! Stream and IRL tickets available here! www.caveat.nyc/events/scien... 🧪🔭
A new fossil site for #FossilFriday! Paleontologists just described a new Ediacaran site in Northwest Canada that preserves the earliest evidence of complex critters like Dickinsonia that crawled along the ancient seafloor. Latest for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
These bizarre fossils represent some of the earliest moving, sexually reproducing life ever discovered
New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea
scientificamerican.com
Excited to share our new paper out today in Science Advances describing some familiar Ediacaran fossils (beautifully reconstructed by Alex Boersma) in an unfamiliar place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Discovery of White Sea assemblage fossils from Laurentia
Fossils of early animal groups found in deeper-water settings millions of years earlier than previously understood.
science.org