A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

The East Coast Trail offers stunning seaside views, including a look at the Atlantic through the Berry Head Arch.

Previous dating of tiny zircon crystals surrounding the caves suggested the area could be up to a billion years old, an age that aligns with the magnetic signatures of nearby rock formations. With the ...

It took me 42 years to see Uluru. When I finally did, it was so overwhelming I wept tears of joy. It’s not that I had no interest in visiting our sacred heartland. Rather, I was distracted by other ...

Ancient wilderness and rare wildlife has led to South Australia’s Flinders Ranges and Outback being the only place in ...

The timescale of animal diversification has been a focus of debate over how evolutionary history should be calibrated to geologic time. Molecular clock analyses have invariably estimated a Cryogenian ...

The Ediacaran Period, spanning from about 635 to 541 million years ago, marked a transformative era in the history of life on Earth. It was during this pivotal time that complex, multicellular ...

Life on Earth began from a single-celled microbe, while the rise to the multicellular world in which we live arose due a vital chemical process known as biomineralization, during which living ...

For the first time, researchers have convincingly recreated in the lab the conditions that preserved the enigmatic fossils of the Ediacaran biota – which represent the earliest-known examples of ...