Paleontologists are always on the hunt for details hiding beneath our feet, slowly filling in the missing pieces of our continuous evolutionary timeline that stratches from the first organisms to ever exist all the way to all organisms alive today. However, there are a few blank spots in there. Can we ever find them?
Explaining “Romer’s Gap” and the Missing Parts of Our Evolutionary Timeline
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