They date back to the Precambrian, with some more than ... While the vast majority of Ediacaran fossils from this period seemed completely alien, this one seemed instantly familiar ...

For decades, scientists have grappled with the absence of Precambrian Ecdysozoan fossils. Molecular studies suggested these ...

Fossils of the largest known among them ... is not unlike one of the first life forms that appeared in the Precambrian era. Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark The earliest ...

The fossil, which is only a few centimeters long, is the oldest member of the Ecdysozoa, and interestingly the only one known ...

A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the Precambrian period. Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects ...

During the Cambrian period (541 million to 485.4 million ... unknown branch of life It's almost unheard of for Precambrian fossils to resemble forms seen in animals alive today, so the discovery ...

This world-famous park is home to numerous fossils, including 1.2-billion-year-old solidified mats of algae from the Precambrian Era known as stromatolites, some of the world’s oldest known life-forms ...

The Royal Tyrrell Museum has a new exhibit that explores fossils from the Precambrian era. It explains how those fossils evolved in the Cambrian era about 500 million years ago, when the ...

In recent years, Precambrian lifeforms have generated an ... Discovered at a site in China, this 541-million-year-old fossil is the first and oldest green alga from this era to be preserved ...

Ancient giant stromatolites used to be widespread in Earth’s Precambrian era, which encompasses the ... “If we’re going to find any sort of fossils on Mars, this is our best guess as to ...

But a UC Riverside-led team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the Precambrian period. Their discovery of Uncus dzaugisi, a worm-like ...