A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a vast superphylum that includes molting animals ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a superphylum of molting animals including insects, ...

Prof. YUAN Xunlai from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team have discovered a late Ediacaran crown-group sponge, Helicolocellus, from the ...

Over 500 million years ago, the ancestors of a diverse group of animals known as Ecdysozoans existed. This group includes various species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms. For a long time, ...

Geology of the older precambrian rocks of the upper granite gorge of the Grand Canyon / R.S. Babcock, E.H. Brown, and M.D. Clark -- The younger precambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon / Trevor D. Ford ...

Tiny fossils that were once thought to be indications of the first animal life have been reinterpreted as coming from an organism that may have been the animals' close cousin.

With sponsorship of the Paleontological Society, Bill Schopf and I have organized a half-day (morning) Symposium (officially, a “Topical Session”) for the 2003 Annual GSA Meeting to be held November 2 ...

Interpretation of microbial fossils with special reference to the Precambrian / St. Golubić and E.S. Barghoorn -- Evolving concepts on the nature and the ecological significance of stromatolites : a ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...