Pompeii-style volcanic ash fall preserved 'nursery' of earliest animals
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 18:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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.