Johns Hopkins Scientists Pinpoint an Unlikely Hero in Evolution: Worms
June 13, 2024
June 13, 2024
BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 13 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins University issued the following news release:
One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity--a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species--may have the most modest of creatures to thank for the vital stage in life's history: worms.
The digging and burrowing of prehistoric worms and other invertebrates along ocean bottoms sparked a chain of events that release . . .
One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity--a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species--may have the most modest of creatures to thank for the vital stage in life's history: worms.
The digging and burrowing of prehistoric worms and other invertebrates along ocean bottoms sparked a chain of events that release . . .