They looked like traces left behind by tiny creatures, but were most likely microbes.
Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...
Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ago -- diversified ...
Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...
Researchers in Canada discovered 567-million-year-old Ediacaran fossils that may contain the earliest evidence of sexual ...
Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows — for the first time — that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived. These creatures from the ...
Early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion, according to a new study. Early animals formed complex ...
One of the earliest known fossil animals, Dickinsonia lived on the sea floor over a half billion years ago. Based on traces of a biochemical marker, coprostanol, UC Davis paleobiologists propose that ...
Marc Laflamme is in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada. In the continuing effort to explain the origins and early ...