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 ...

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 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 groundbreaking fossil which is estimated to be 555 million years old has shed light on one of the biggest mysteries in evolution - the origins of Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, crustaceans ...

We study the anatomy and genetic structure of fossils to understand the evolution of organisms. Members of Jakob Vinther’s research group study a broad range of subjects. One focus of our research is ...