The strange creature—which bears a question-mark shape on its body—roved about like a prehistoric Roomba, researchers said.

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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 ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

The Leicestershire location is internationally famous for what it tells us about the Ediacaran (635 to 538 to million years ago). This is the period in geological history that immediately precedes ...

It lived 555 million years ago during what geologists term as the Ediacaran Period - the time in Earth history when life started to become multi-celled and much more complex. The discovery started ...

In the Ediacaran Hills, researchers have found one of the first moving animals – and an even more distinctive feature is a question-mark-shaped ridge that makes this the oldest known animal to ...

No other fossils from the Ediacara period have shown this type of organization ... with other members of the Ediacara fauna. Like other Ediacaran fossils, Quaestio doesn't seem to posses any ...

Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA X-ray Microanalysis Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA ...

leading to a rise in oxygen that drove an explosion of multicellular organisms during the Ediacaran Period The proto-bird lived some 120 million years ago and did not have teeth—a trait more ...

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a geologic timespan that predates the Cambrian explosion. An international ...