Sprigg’s discovery proved important as a first signal that the period now called Ediacaran, not the Cambrian just following it, was where the saga of bigness and complexity began. Then in 1967 a ...

University of Rochester researchers studied Earth’s magnetic field during the transformative Ediacaran Period, which spanned from about 635 to 541 million years ago. The research raises ...

A team of researchers has identified the earliest known ecdysozoan fossil, which originated from the Precambrian era, the Ediacaran Period. The fossil is of a small, worm-like creature named Uncus ...

during the Ediacaran period, when multicellular life was taking shape. However, it was long thought that a vanishingly small magnetic field would be harmful to emerging life, because Earth's ...

By establishing the biggest paleobiology database of early Earth to date and employing cutting-edge analytical tools, including supercomputer and artificial intelligence, an international ...

The Leicestershire location is internationally famous for what it tells us about the Ediacaran (635 to 538 to million years ago). This is the period in geological history that immediately precedes ...

According to the findings, the Cryogenian was a key driver of biodiversity shifts and marked a pivotal transition to the Ediacaran period, which saw greater diversity, more rapid turnover ...

leading to a rise in oxygen that drove an explosion of multicellular organisms during the Ediacaran Period The proto-bird lived some 120 million years ago and did not have teeth—a trait more ...

They come from the Ediacaran period, when the first multi-cellular organisms - meaning organisms made up of multiple cells - existed on Earth. 'We just don't know what they are' Prof Cope ...

The Ediacaran seafloor shows a time before animals started burrowing through the sediment. The top layers were covered in thick microbial mats where these primitive animals lived. As time passed ...