organisms

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In others, they are helping scientists identify organisms completely new to science.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

For a bucket of gravel it’s tedious, for minerals it’s difficult, and for living organisms it’s surely impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The Ediacaran period occurred before the Cambrian explosion, a major evolutionary turning point when rising oxygen levels helped complex organisms diversify rapidly across Earth's oceans.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

Finding them in rocks this old would have pushed back the fossil record for these organisms significantly.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

This view held that societies, like living organisms, grow, mature, and inevitably decay—a phenomenon for which history provided ready examples.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro