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Stirling Range, Australia

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2023)

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Stirling Range Biota

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2023)

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Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt

Fungi have recently been found to comprise a significant part of the deep biosphere in oceanic sediments and crustal rocks. Fossils occupying fractures and pores in Phanerozoic volcanics indicate that this hab...

Stefan Bengtson, Birger Rasmussen, Magnus Ivarsson… in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2017)

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Stirling Range, Australia

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2015)

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Stirling Range Biota

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2015)

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Embryology in Deep Time

For anyone who has cared for animal embryos, it beggars belief that these squishy cellular aggregates could be fossilised. Hence, with hindsight, it is possible to empathise with palaeontologists who found suc...

Philip C. J. Donoghue, John A. Cunningham… in Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Inve… (2015)

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Stirling Range, Australia

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology

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Stirling Range Biota

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology

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Fossilized iron bacteria reveal a pathway to the biological origin of banded iron formation

Debates on the formation of banded iron formations in ancient ferruginous oceans are dominated by a dichotomy between abiotic and biotic iron cycling. This is fuelled by difficulties in unravelling the exact p...

Ernest Chi Fru, Magnus Ivarsson, Stephanos P. Kilias… in Nature Communications (2013)

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Stirling Range, Australia

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2011)

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Stirling Range Biota

Stefan Bengtson in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (2011)

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Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago

A series of well preserved centimetre-scale fossils in an extended fossiliferous level within black shales near Franceville, in Gabon, West Africa, provides a glimpse of perhaps the earliest form of multicellu...

Abderrazak El Albani, Stefan Bengtson, Donald E. Canfield, Andrey Bekker… in Nature (2010)

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A little Kraken wakes

Fossils from the famed Burgess Shale continue to deliver fresh perspectives on a dramatic episode in evolutionary time. The latest revelations bear on the early history of cephalopod molluscs.

Stefan Bengtson in Nature (2010)

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Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales

The study of the emergence of flowering plants has been revolutionized over the past 25 years by the discovery of many exquisitely preserved fossil flowers. But fossil gymnosperms (conifers) have received less...

Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, Stefan Bengtson… in Nature (2007)

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Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos

Fossils of exquisitely preserved half-a-billion year old animal embryos impregnated and encrusted with calcium phosphate have created great excitement as they may contain precious information on developmental ...

Philip C. J. Donoghue, Stefan Bengtson, ** Dong, Neil J. Gostling… in Nature (2006)

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A ghost with a bite

Witness a snail scra** microbial films from the inside of an aquarium. Go back 505 million years, and this looks to have been the way an enigmatic early animal made its living (but without the aquarium).

Stefan Bengtson in Nature (2006)