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Have you ever pondered precisely when a certain gathering of plants or animals initially evolved? Not long from now a historic new asset for scientists will go live, and it is intended to help answer simply those sorts of inquiries. The Fossil Calibration Database , a free, open-access asset that stores painstakingly reviewed fossil data, is the aftereffect of years of work from an overall group drove by Dr. Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, and Dr. James Parham, Curator at the John D. Cooper Archeological and Paleontological Center in Orange County, California, supported through the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). "Fossils give the discriminating age data we have to unlock the timing of major transformative events,"says Dr. Ksepka. "This new asset will give the essential fossil data expected to adjust 'sub-atomic timekeepers' which can uncover the ages of plant and creature bunches that need good fossil reco