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KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

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A remote chain of volcanic islands that helped shape modern science will take center stage in Canandaigua next month, as a ...