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.
New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.
Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...
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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, ...
"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 ...
A high-resolution astrochronological framework for the early Ediacaran refines the timing of key events, linking glaciation, carbon isotope excursions, and fossil assemblages to gradual ecosystem ...
An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...
Scientists have discovered Ikaria wariootia, a 555-million-year-old fossil in Australia, believed to be the earliest ancestor ...
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