Science Advances · 25 September 2026 · From issue 42

Staking out the frontiers: The limits of the metazoan shallow marine fossil record

Most ancient sea fossil beds are nearly fully searched, with little left to find.

Thomas A. Neubauer, Mathias Harzhauser.

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