Imagine a mask made when you die that could preserve your face for millions of years. In a way, this is what happened to some of our planet's oldest known animals. Encased in “death masks” made of the ...
Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived 570 million years ago. The study sheds light on early life, fossil process ...
The 550-million-year-old fossil Tribrachidium heraldicum is one of the most enigmatic critters from the Ediacaran. With its circular, three-lobe form, it doesn't resemble any modern organism. The ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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