Evolutionary debate Ancient fossils found in South Australia lived on land, argues one researcher, whose controversial claim has huge implications for the tree of life. Professor Gregory Retallack of ...

May 19 (UPI) --The Garden of the Ediacaran was livelier than previously thought, study suggests. Researchers believe several Precambrian species used currents to move and eat. Until recently, ...

Organically preserved, unicellular microfossils of Ediacaran and Cambrian age, which comprise single and multiple internal bodies within the vesicle, have been studied with a view towards explaining ...

A geological row is brewing over the first new geological period in 120 years to receive an official name. This month the International Union of Geological Sciences announced that its International ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --New fossil analysis suggests the planet's earliest known animals emerged at least 571 million years ago. The new study -- published this month in the journal Paleontology-- proves ...

Scientists believe that the Earth is currently in the midst of its sixth major extinction event, but a new study suggests that’s not the case – it may actually be the seventh. Scientists have found ...

Ediacaran fossils of Charnia (A-C) and Shaanxilithes Photo: Courtesy of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology Chinese scientists and researchers announced on Tuesday the discovery of new ...

Algae? Fungi? Some other type of plant? The Ediacaran organisms, ancient life forms that were common on in the Earth's oceans half a billion years ago, have puzzled scientists for decades. Now two ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The "Ediacaran organisms," which preceded and overlapped the Cambrian radiation of metazoans, include many fossils whose systematic positions ...

Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 ...