I’ve watched and listened to this scores of times, (to the audio while I walk my mail route.). It’s all just so amazing. Some of the very first organisms on this planet. I envy the Paleontologists and the other professionals who devote their lives to discover our earth’s life-history. I would gladly volunteer, for free, to help them in the field. I’d lug their equipment to any of the remote assemblages anywhere in the world, White Sea, Mistaken Point, the Nama assemblage in Namibia, and of course the Ediacaran hills in Australia. Just feed me my meals and I’d be a very happy man.
The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that the Ediacara was the match that set the fire of the Cambrian. We need to find more locations around the world with exposed Ediacara surfaces. This period wasn't the start of life but it is crucial to multicellular life and we need to know more about it.
Very interesting and educative lecture. I have enjoyed it much. It is a real luck that such a variety of soft-body fossils still exist after two-thirds of a billion years. Even luckier that good scientists are able to discover and analyse them. Pity about the muted nearly two minutes, but things like that happen to anybody.
Excellent lecture! The Eidiacarian is so fascinating
I’ve watched and listened to this scores of times, (to the audio while I walk my mail route.). It’s all just so amazing. Some of the very first organisms on this planet. I envy the Paleontologists and the other professionals who devote their lives to discover our earth’s life-history. I would gladly volunteer, for free, to help them in the field. I’d lug their equipment to any of the remote assemblages anywhere in the world, White Sea, Mistaken Point, the Nama assemblage in Namibia, and of course the Ediacaran hills in Australia. Just feed me my meals and I’d be a very happy man.
The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that the Ediacara was the match that set the fire of the Cambrian. We need to find more locations around the world with exposed Ediacara surfaces. This period wasn't the start of life but it is crucial to multicellular life and we need to know more about it.
Sounds lovely. See you tomorrow.
sound cuts out at about 10:30
Sound returns at 12:20
Very interesting and educative lecture. I have enjoyed it much. It is a real luck that such a variety of soft-body fossils still exist after two-thirds of a billion years. Even luckier that good scientists are able to discover and analyse them.
Pity about the muted nearly two minutes, but things like that happen to anybody.