A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a vast superphylum that includes molting animals ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a superphylum of molting animals including insects, ...

Over 500 million years ago, the ancestors of a diverse group of animals known as Ecdysozoans existed. This group includes various species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms. For a long time, ...

A 555-million-year-old fossil found in South Australia provides crucial evidence for the Precambrian origins of Ecdysozoa, ...

Prof. YUAN Xunlai from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team have discovered a late Ediacaran crown-group sponge, Helicolocellus, from the ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale. As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly familiar.

"This is volume C-1 of the Geological Society of America's Geology of North America series produced as part of the Decade of North American Geology Project." ...

Tiny fossils that were once thought to be indications of the first animal life have been reinterpreted as coming from an organism that may have been the animals' close cousin.

With sponsorship of the Paleontological Society, Bill Schopf and I have organized a half-day (morning) Symposium (officially, a “Topical Session”) for the 2003 Annual GSA Meeting to be held November 2 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Researchers from around the world visit a brown building across from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science that is only open to the public on certain ...