500-million-year-old fossil

Unlocking Earth’s Lost Chapters: Why Museum Basements Are the New Frontier For decades, paleontologists have been haunted by the “Furongian gap”—a mysterious 13-million-year void in the fossil record where biodiversity appears to plummet. For years, we assumed a mass extinction event wiped out marine life around 500 million years ago. But as it turns out, … Read more