Since 2020, synchrotron radiation facilities in several Asia-Pacific countries have been
collaborating in a major project called “SYNAPSE”(Synchrotrons for Neuroscience: an Asia …

Winner, 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for Science Writing Among the major events
in evolutionary history, few rival in importance the appearance of animals. The Rise of …

The two main types of theories for the evolution of the biphasic life cycles in marine
invertebrates are discussed. The “intercalation” theories propose that the larval stages …

Lagerstätten, places where soft‐bodied organisms became mineralized, provide a
substantial bulk of palaeobiological information, but the detailed mechanisms of how soft …

Chitinozoans are organic-walled microfossils widely recorded in Ordovician to Devonian (ca
485–359 Mya) marine sediments and extensively used in high-resolution biostratigraphy …

A unifying model is presented that explains most of the major changes seen in fossil
preservation and redox conditions across the Precambrian–Cambrian transition. It is …

Animal phylogeny is undergoing a major revolution due to the availability of an
exponentially increasing amount of molecular data and the application of novel methods of …

The upper Henson Gletscher Formation (Cambrian, Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) of
southern Lauge Koch Land and Løndal, south-western Peary Land, North Greenland …

The bivalved bradoriid arthropod Kunmingella douvillei (Mansuy, 1912) is the most common
species in the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Its soft anatomy has been reported …

Diverse chancelloriids from two sections of the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Wuliuan Stage) in
Guizhou Province, China, are systematically described. A total of 25 complete individuals …