Tag Archive for 'Ediacaran'

Artist’s reconstruction of the Fractofusus community: the bottom right features a large Fractofusus around which there are 5 to 8 medium specimens clustered; each of the medium specimens also has small specimens clustered around them; the small specimens therefore form an independent double cluster pattern, namely clusters of clusters. Image credit: C.G. Kenchington.

Paleontologists Find Earliest Example of Reproduction in Complex Organisms

Aug 3, 2015 by News Staff

A new study has found that Ediacaran organisms known as rangeomorphs reproduced by taking a joint approach: they first sent out an ‘advance party’...

This Megasphaera fossil displays unexpected evidence of complexity: arrow marks a matryoshka and arrowhead denotes dyads. Scale bar - 100 μm. Image credit: Lei Chen et al.

Paleontologists Find 600-Million-Year-Old Microfossils of Complex Multicellular Organisms

Sep 25, 2014 by News Staff

Pre-Cambrian microfossils discovered in rocks in southern China hint that complex multicellular life may have appeared as early as 600 million years ago. This...

Dendrogramma: Two Unclassifiable Deep-Sea Animals Discovered off Australia

Sep 7, 2014 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, two species of sea-dwelling, mushroom-shaped organisms discovered off Australia...

Artistic reconstruction of Haootia quadriformis. Scale bar - 10 mm. Image credit: Martin Brasier.

560-Million-Year-Old Fossil Provides Earliest Evidence of Muscles

Aug 27, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dr Martin Brasier of the University of Oxford and the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dr Alexander Liu of the University of Cambridge...

Ichnological record of animal-matground interactions across the transition between Ediacaran, left, and Cambrian, right, periods. Image credit: Luis A. Buatois et al.

Study Sheds Light on Life during Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition

Apr 11, 2014 by News Staff

A study led by Prof Luis Buatois from the University of Saskatchewan provides new evidence to understand the development of life at Ediacaran-Cambrian...