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 ...

Complex, multicellular organisms emerged, setting the stage for the explosion of life on the planet over 500 million years ago in a time epoch known as the Ediacaran Period. But it didn't happen ...

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 ...

Sprigg’s discovery proved important as a first signal that the period now called Ediacaran, not the Cambrian just following it, was where the saga of bigness and complexity began. Then in 1967 a ...

The Ediacaran seafloor shows a time before animals started burrowing through the sediment. The top layers were covered in thick microbial mats where these primitive animals lived. As time passed ...