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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 29/08/2026

How did some of Earth's earliest complex animals move—and could half-a-billion-year-old fossils reveal clues about life on other planets? Find out in this video with invertebrate paleontologist and Museum Curator Scott Evans (@fossilslablab.bsky.social)!👇

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What 100 Bent Fossils Revealed About Early Animals

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fossilSLABlab.bsky.social @fossilslablab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

(1/8) For #FossilFriday – What can ~555-million-year-old fossils tell us about the earliest animal behaviors? Excited to share a new article with Blakely Webb, @chemosymbiosis.bsky.social, Bill Parker & @marydroser.bsky.social in Scientific Reports investigating evidence of motility in Spriggina

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 09/07/2026

This handedness may be a clue that Spriggina had a surprisingly advanced nervous system, giving new insights into how complex brains evolved! Read more about the findings, led by Scott Evans (@fossilslablab.bsky.social), an assistant curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Museum.👇

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Earliest Evidence of “Right-Handedness” in Animals | AMNH

New research suggests Spriggina floundersi preferred bending to the right, making it the oldest known example of “handedness.”

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 09/07/2026

Are you right- or left-handed? You may have something in common with this 550-million-year-old animal! 🤯 👉 Meet Spriggina—the world’s first “right-handed” animal! Long before dinosaurs, this little organism crawled along a slime-covered seafloor and preferred bending to the right.

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fossilSLABlab.bsky.social @fossilslablab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Happy #FossilFriday from the invertebrate paleontology collections @amnh.org where the newest (and first!) fossil SLAB lab member, Postdoc Prescott Vayda, and Colorado College intern, Kevin Gallegos Hernandez, are investigating some strange creatures from the Devonian of Pennsylvania!

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Mark Popinchalk @markpopinchalk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

THE BONEY AWARDS - The award show for fossil records, May 27 at 7pm Bizzare awards, red carpet drama, and an interview with a paleontologist! + Games, Sketches and More! Stream and IRL tickets available here! www.caveat.nyc/events/scien... 🧪🔭

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Jack Tamisiea @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A new fossil site for #FossilFriday! Paleontologists just described a new Ediacaran site in Northwest Canada that preserves the earliest evidence of complex critters like Dickinsonia that crawled along the ancient seafloor. Latest for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...

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These bizarre fossils represent some of the earliest moving, sexually reproducing life ever discovered

New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea

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fossilSLABlab.bsky.social @fossilslablab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Excited to share our new paper out today in Science Advances describing some familiar Ediacaran fossils (beautifully reconstructed by Alex Boersma) in an unfamiliar place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Discovery of White Sea assemblage fossils from Laurentia

Fossils of early animal groups found in deeper-water settings millions of years earlier than previously understood.

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