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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

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 ...