The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, occurring approximately 540 million years ago, marked a dramatic diversification of life. Animal diversity expanded alongside novel burrowing strategies and ...

Chengdu University of Technology-led research has established a high-resolution astrochronological framework spanning ...

"These results bring us closer to understanding the functions performed by early multicellular animals in Ediacaran ecosystems," said Dr. Andrey Ivantsov, lead author of the study and a researcher ...

New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.

Dickinsonia has now been confirmed as the planet’s oldest known animal, with Russian cliffside fossils containing preserved fat molecules.

My research is broadly concerned with the origin and early evolution of animals. I focus on a pivotal interval in Earth’s history, the late Ediacaran–Cambrian (~571 to 485 million years ago), which ...