The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years, are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings. There are now more than 50 different Ediacaran forms known ...

A team of researchers has identified the earliest known ecdysozoan fossil, which originated from the Precambrian era, the Ediacaran Period. The fossil is of a small, worm-like creature named Uncus ...

The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...

Single-celled algae called acritarchs and the Ediacaran animals vanish from the fossil record at the end of the Vendian, the period that closes the Proterozoic era. If they were wiped out by an ...