LIFE ON THE EDGE

Charles Darwin would have loved the cliffs of Newfoundland, where 500-million-years-old fossils reside

We live nowadays, of course, in a degraded world, not just environmentally but numerically. Billionaires are a dime a dozen. We’re such data gluttons that the once stupendous gigabyte—a billion bytes—is next to nothing. So how do you even begin to sense the immensity of life making its way half a billion years ago?

Read the full story by Terence Monmaney here.

Keywords: Ancient life; Darwin; fossils; Newfoundland