The explanation of maintenance for a diachronous late Ediacaran ice age remains unclear. Here, the authors use climate and weathering models to find that true polar wander could increase ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

“These sediments preserve the transition between squishy, exoskeleton-lacking organisms in the Ediacaran to the exoskeleton-bearing organisms in the Cambrian,” Norman said. “These include the ...

More information: Tan Zhang et al, Astronomically calibrating early Ediacaran evolution, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57201-1 Journal information: Nature Communications ...

A 558-million-year-old fossil uncovered Earth’s oldest known animal — say hello to Dickinsonia, a bizarre animal from ancient Ediacaran oceans. With no head or limbs, Dickinsonia resembled ...

Political Leader of the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) Jamale Pringle has called for party unity following a weekend of public criticism from fellow UPP parliamentarians and deepening ...

An analysis of organic material from 500-million-year-old fossils upholds the theory that the mysterious creatures were early forms of animal life. Scientists uncovered 500-million-year-old fossilized ...

The first complex animals to have ever existed arose during the Ediacaran period (635–540 million years ago). Before then, less complex and single-celled organisms, like sponges and cyanobacteria, ...

Ediacaran Period Fossil. Image via Openverse. These fossils date back to the Ediacaran period, approximately 635 to 541 million years ago. This era marks a pivotal time in Earth’s history when simple ...

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