Dickinsonia is a fossilised organism considered the oldest-known animal in the geological record. The oval-shaped creature with rib-like features lived about 558 million years ago, in the Ediacaran ...
Dickinsonia has now been confirmed as the planet’s oldest known animal, with Russian cliffside fossils containing preserved fat molecules.
New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.
Scientists have discovered Ikaria wariootia, a 555-million-year-old fossil in Australia, believed to be the earliest ancestor ...
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‘Ancestor Of All Animals’ Discovered In 555-Million-Year-Old Australian FossilsUniversity of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...
An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...
The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.
"These results bring us closer to understanding the functions performed by early multicellular animals in Ediacaran ecosystems," said Dr. Andrey Ivantsov, lead author of the study and a researcher at ...
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