Palaeontology
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At first glance, epidote might look like a perfectly ordinary rock: greenish, slightly glassy, nice enough to put on your bookshelf. But this mineral is far more than just decoration. Epidote could help unlock the mystery of life’s earliest origins on Earth, and perhaps even beyond. The fossil record is our best archive for understanding
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Trapped in ancient glass, 800,000-year-old plant molecules may hold clues to life’s survival—and its cosmic origins. Formed by a fiery meteorite impact in Tasmania, Darwin Glass isn’t just beautiful—it’s a natural time capsule that could reveal whether life can travel between planets, and maybe even how it began.
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This new video from History of the Earth takes us on a journey from the surprising discovery of anomalcaris thanks to an unthinkable act of fossil destruction, through the roles and ramifications of predation in an ecoystem, the ever-accelerating arms race that predator-prey interactions ignite, to finally how we can use the fossil evidence to…
Leila Battison 