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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ediacaran; Ꞓ, Cambrian; O, Ordovician; CI, confidence interval; Myr, million years. This study, based on a global compilation of fossil data ... The 'boring billion' refers to a period in Earth's ...

Single-celled algae called acritarchs and the Ediacaran animals vanish from the fossil record at the end of the Vendian, the period that closes the Proterozoic era. If they were wiped out by an ...

Scientists have only four known tardigrade fossils, which preserve insights ... an explosion of multicellular organisms during the Ediacaran Period The proto-bird lived some 120 million years ...