cell.com/trends/ecology… Another paper showing the profound confusion the field has managed to find itself in. 1. There is a clear, consistent and and phylogenetically ordered animal fossil record from c 574 Ma onwards across several preservation types.

2. Molecular clock studies suggesting a deep animal origin are based on a methodological artefact so that the true evidence from the fossil record is distorted. 3. Thus we have no good reason to think that animals greatly predated their fossil record.

Our new paper uses Bayesian astrochronology to date the origin of trilobites with extreme precision. Read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1130/G51718…

Ediacaran "trace fossils" made by tectonic shear doi.org/10.1016/j.prec…

The mat strikes back: Did Cambrian microbes attack the shells of the molluscs that grazed on their peers? doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

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"Making" babies is the main cost in reproduction – but has been overlooked science.org/doi/full/10.11…

No spatial structure to Dickinsonia distribution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ediacaran forests mixed the oceans cell.com/current-biolog… I wonder how their role compares to other surface irregularities, e.g. dropstones?

Take the uncertainty with you: Sequential Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference, from Höhna & Hsiang doi.org/10.1093/sysbio…

Bird clades carry a molecular signature of the K-Pg extinction science.org/doi/pdf/10.112…

A mobile Ediacaran question mark onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Cambrian macro-predator Omnidens provides a new take on the origins of arthropod mouthparts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

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