Scientists have identified *Ikaria wariootia*, a tiny wormlike creature from 555 million years ago, as the earliest known ...

Ikaria wariootia existed during the Ediacaran period, a period of time prior to the renowned Cambrian explosion.

The tiny fossil Ikaria wariootia reveals the earliest known ancestor of all animals, reshaping our understanding of evolution ...

Around 591 million years ago, Earth’s nearly vanished magnetic field triggered a surge in oxygen that paved the way for ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

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T. Stoeck et al., Protistan diversity in the Arctic: A case of paleoclimate shaping modern biodiversity? PLoS One 2, e728 (2007).

Ediacaran employees, including manager Susan Sun (left), pose next to their booth as Observer media speaks exclusively with their team about how the regions CIU programme could grow further in the ...

“Scientists have been fighting for more than 75 years over what Dickinsonia and other bizarre fossils of the Ediacaran Biota were: giant single-celled amoeba, lichen, failed experiments of evolution ...