Daily
Mail: Evidence of ancient animal life has been found
embedded in rock in Newfoundland. A team of researchers from
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has discovered more
than 100 fossils of baby
rangeomorphs
preserved in volcanic ash that probably buried them much the
same way Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The tiny frond-shaped organisms lived in the deep ocean during
the Ediacaran period about half a billion years ago. They
resemble sea-pen corals yet are unlike any creature alive
today. A report of the research by Alexander Liu of Cambridge
University and colleagues will appear in this month's issue of
the
Journal of the Geological Society.
