An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve
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"An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 6 articles from 6 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Nautilus | Science, Earth.com, The Conversation and IFLScience. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata only — no AI-written claims. Updated 98d ago.
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Coverage (6)
- An Explosion of Feces May Have Triggered Earth’s Explosion of Species Nautilus | Science · 100d ago
- Fossil feces helped fuel the growth of early marine ecosystems Earth.com · 101d ago
- On the origin of feces: how animal poo drove Earth’s greatest evolutionary event The Conversation · 101d ago
- How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Forever IFLScience · 101d ago
- How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems Phys.org · 101d ago
- An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve ScienceAlert · 101d ago
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