The Ediacaran period lasted almost a 100 million ... Ernietta appeared fairly late in the Ediacaran, meaning there were tens of millions of years for animals to evolve more sophisticated feeding ...

An Ediacaran fossil from the National Earth Science Museum, Namibia. J. Hoyal Cuthill. Hundreds of millions of years ago, before animals began to emerge en masse during the Cambrian period, the ...

An international team of scientists say they have new insight into how the very earliest animals survived after traces of what they described as the world’s oldest meal were found in a 550 ...

Paleontologists have revealed the fossilized remains of a curious creature that is not only one of Earth's oldest animals, but may even be the first to have ever been mobile.

It's thought the Earth is currently entering its sixth major extinction event, but a new study suggests it may actually be the seventh. Scientists have found evidence of a previously unknown mass ...

Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 ...

The Ediacaran macrofossil Fractofusus reveals a complex life history of multigenerational, stolon-like asexual reproduction, interspersed with dispersal of waterborne propagules. Large or ...

The findings, laid out in a paper titled, “A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia,” were published in in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Earth’s magnetic field was once 30 times weaker than it is today. This change may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research found.

Earth’s magnetic field was once 30 times weaker than it is today. This change may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research found.