Ash fall preserved 'nursery' of earliest animals
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 07:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) -- A volcanic eruption around 579 million years ago buried a 'nursery' of the earliest-known animals under a Pompeii-like deluge of ash, preserving them as fossils in rocks in Newfoundland, new research suggests.