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The discovery of Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum is a reminder of how much remains to be learned about life’s evolutionary ...

More than half a billion years ago, mystery predators bored into shelled animals' defensive casings. Some of the holey shells became fossilized, and now tell us the story of the earliest known battle ...