Some of the fossils celebrated as sea life’s big breakout beyond mere soups and slimes might actually have dwelled on land, argues a controversial new study. Named the Ediacaran fauna after ...

The Ediacaran period, 635 million to 542 million years ago, immediately predates the Cambrian period, which saw an evolutionary explosion that led to all modern animal phyla. Fossils from an ...

Evidence for the first land life is controversial, but the fossil record has a tendency to surprise. ... Ediacaran life on land 2012-Dec-12. Obituary: Jane Gray (1929–2000) 2000-May-04.

Evolutionary debate Ancient fossils found in South Australia lived on land, argues one researcher, whose controversial claim has huge implications for the tree of life. Professor Gregory Retallack ...

Environmental drivers of the first major animal extinction across the Ediacaran White Sea-Nama transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 119 (46) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207475119 ...

At this time—in the Ediacaran Period—the land was overwhelmingly barren and lifeless; although shallow seas played host to an array of strange, soft bodied creatures.

The new alga species was not a direct ancestor of today's land plants. By the late Ediacaran, Green algae had already split off from the branch that would later give rise to land plants.

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 ...

Etched into rock at a dusty cattle station in outback South Australia is the richest collection of Ediacaran fossils in the world. Now, the site will be open to tourists for the first time.

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.