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arly Extinctions Set the Stage for Life as We Know It

Early Extinctions Set the Stage for Life as We Know It

By applying data science techniques to the fossil record, researchers have found evidence for two early extinction events that wiped out the strange organisms populating Earth during the Ediacaran Period. These extinctions likely paved the way for the rise of animal life.

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arly Extinctions Set the Stage for Life as We Know It
Early Extinctions Set the Stage for Life as We Know It 19 March 2019 Feature

Many of the fossils left by the strange “Ediacara biota” that thrived during the Ediacaran Period (…

Two New Sloan Foundation Grants for Deep Carbon Science 20 November 2018 Feature

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently announced two new Officer’s Grants for deep carbon science…

4D Workshop Report
4D Workshop: Deep-time Data Driven Discovery and the Evolution of Earth 27 June 2018 Feature

Each day’s collaborative, interdisciplinary program included a small number of plenary talks…

Webinar: Data Science for Geosciences: Data Acquisition 15 June 2018 Feature

Hao Zhong, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA This webinar kicked off DCO's four-part…

Webinar: Why and How To Cite Data 15 June 2018 Feature

  Mark Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Increasingly data, software, and other…

DCO Webinar Wednesdays Summer Data Science Series 29 April 2018 Feature

You can join the webinars live, and follow along on Twitter on the hashtag #DCOWebWed. All…

Data Portal 17 April 2018 Feature

Scientists explored an early iteration of the Data Portal on DCO Data Science Day, 5 June 2014.The…

Big Data Points Humanity to New Minerals, New Deposits 1 August 2017 Feature

//--> /*-->*/ Predicted before they were found: New-to-science carbon-…

DCO Webinar Wednesdays
DCO Webinar Wednesdays: Explore Data Science, Modeling, and Visualization 18 May 2017 Feature

A new series of DCO webinars focusing on big data modeling and visualization launched Wednesday, 17…

Deep Carbon, Big Data: Meet the DCO Data Science Team 26 April 2017 Feature

Tackling everything from large mineral databases, to catalogues of data trapped in archived…

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