Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

The Ediacaran, an era that ended about 540 million years ago, is considered the prelude to the Cambrian explosion, a period ...

Researchers studying ancient rocks from the late Ediacaran period uncovered a fossil evidence that complex animal groups, including the closest known invertebrate relatives of humans, may have existed ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new hypothesis suggests that the answer isn't found in shells or legs, but in the ...

Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.

The Cambrian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, spanning approximately 539–485 million years ago, characterized by a major diversification of multicellular life known as the Cambrian explosion ...

Microscopic squiggles found in 890-million-year-old Canadian reef rocks may represent the oldest animal body fossils, ...

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