May 19 (UPI) --The Garden of the Ediacaran was livelier than previously thought, study suggests. Researchers believe several Precambrian species used currents to move and eat. Until recently, ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --New fossil analysis suggests the planet's earliest known animals emerged at least 571 million years ago. The new study -- published this month in the journal Paleontology-- proves ...

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 of ...

A geological row is brewing over the first new geological period in 120 years to receive an official name. This month the International Union of Geological Sciences announced that its International ...

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 ...

An illustration of some of the underwater creatures that lived during the Ediacaran Period, roughly 635 million to 541 million years ago. University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Earth’s ...

Researchers discover penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of western Mongolia, revealing earlier onset of the “agronomic revolution”. Researchers led by Nagoya University discover ...

A mysterious, ancient organism with leaf-like fronds once flourished in shallow waters. Now, after decades of debate as to whether these organisms were fungi, algae, protozoa or even from a lost ...

The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile-long trough in the ground and buckled local rocks has been revealed in a NASA satellite image. Estimated to have been 700–1,300 feet ...