How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a vast superphylum that includes molting animals ...

Prof. YUAN Xunlai from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team have discovered a late Ediacaran crown-group sponge, Helicolocellus, from the ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a superphylum of molting animals including insects, ...

Until recently, details about this group's most distant past have been elusive. But a UC Riverside-led team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from ...

Geology of the older precambrian rocks of the upper granite gorge of the Grand Canyon / R.S. Babcock, E.H. Brown, and M.D. Clark -- The younger precambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon / Trevor D. Ford ...

Interpretation of microbial fossils with special reference to the Precambrian / St. Golubić and E.S. Barghoorn -- Evolving concepts on the nature and the ecological significance of stromatolites : a ...

With sponsorship of the Paleontological Society, Bill Schopf and I have organized a half-day (morning) Symposium (officially, a “Topical Session”) for the 2003 Annual GSA Meeting to be held November 2 ...

Key PointsMicrobial fossils provide some of the earliest direct physical evidence of life on Earth.Researchers are probing less-studied parts of the ...