The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...

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 ...

Misra noticed a fossil-rich slab of mudstone at Newfoundland ... But the worminess of that transitional time, in the late Ediacaran period, may have played a crucial role. A few weeks after ...

Ediacaran fossil from Namibian site. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any ...

Ediacaran; Ꞓ, Cambrian; O, Ordovician; CI, confidence interval; Myr, million years. This study, based on a global compilation of fossil data, represents a significant advance in ... The 'boring ...

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 ...