Between 635 to 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period, Earth witnessed a remarkable emergence of early life.

The strange creature—which bears a question-mark shape on its body—roved about like a prehistoric Roomba, researchers said.

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a ...

Researchers in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county, might also have found the answer to what happened to the first ...

In the Ediacaran Hills, researchers have found one of the first moving animals – and an even more distinctive feature is a ...

The Ediacaran Subcommission of the International Commission on Stratigraphy is diligently working toward the goal of subdividing the Ediacaran Period into precise and useful chronostratigraphic units.

Paleontologists have recently unearthed a significant discovery in the Nilpena Ediacara National Park, located in the remote outback of South Australia. The find, a species named Quaestio simpsonorum, ...

This fossil find is significant, as the preservation of soft-bodied marine animals from the Ediacaran period – which spanned 635 to 538 million years ago – is incredibly rare, and of the 100 ...

Dickinsonia belongs to a group of life forms known as the Ediacaran biota. They were the first complex multi-cellular organisms to appear on Earth. But they have been extremely difficult to ...

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