This tiny fossil, measuring just a few centimeters, is significant as it is the oldest confirmed ecdysozoan and the only one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...