Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...

Owing to the lack of temporally well-constrained Ediacaran fossil localities containing overlapping biotic assemblages, it has remained uncertain if the latest Ediacaran (ca 550-541 Ma) assemblages ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have revealed the fossilized remains of a curious creature that is not only one of Earth's oldest animals, but may even be the first to have ever been mobile. Dubbed Quaestio ...

The Ediacaran period, 635 million to 542 million years ago, immediately predates the Cambrian period, which saw an evolutionary explosion that led to all modern animal phyla. Fossils from an Ediacaran ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life on Earth 600 million years ago comprised enigmatic mattress-like organisms, but some modern ecological rules did apply In Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams has left Marvin the ...