539-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Fossils Push Complex Animal Life Back 4 Million Years
Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian explosion.
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Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian explosion.
Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.
Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below th...
Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earliest evolution of complex animal...
Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life. What were once thought to be trails left behind...
A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion
New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea
More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now becom...
Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes. Ancient microfossils discovered in Brazil are changing scientists’...
The companies that drilled these cores decades ago couldn’t have known the scientific treasures inside.
The fossil is a reminder of how incomplete our understanding of Earth’s history remains.
Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatur...
Learn how a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil from Québec is helping scientists rethink the Furongian gap and the hidden diversity of late Cambrian life.
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “h...
Over the past few days I’ve been discussing an important paper in the journal Science that reveals supposed Ediacaran bilaterian animal fossils (see here and here, with more to com...
Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a...
Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Source
A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once believed
When it comes to evolution, a few million years can really matter.
Seven little worms, none more than a few millimeters long, were picked from acid-dissolved rock in southern Shaanxi Province over the course of painstaking residue-hunting. They do...
Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This rare herbivorous “living fossil” helps scientists bette...
Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.
A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, e...
From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of t...
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