Aug. 21 (UPI) --New fossil analysis suggests the planet's earliest known animals emerged at least 571 million years ago. The new study -- published this month in the journal Paleontology-- proves ...

Between 580 and 540 million years ago, toward the end of the so-called Ediacaran Period, the first complex animals emerged in Earth's shallow oceans. Now, scientists from the University of California, ...

UPPSALA, Sweden, Dec. 7 (UPI) --Biologists and paleontologists have long struggled to tease out the relationships between some of the planet's first complex organisms and more modern lineages. The ...

The animal kingdom is likely older than current scientific understanding suggests, according to a study published in the journal Palaeontology. Researchers found that a marine creature, known as ...

When did animals originate? In research published in the journal Palaeontology, we show that this question is answered by Cambrian period fossils of a frond-like sea creature called Stromatoveris ...

When did animals originate? Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin may have speculated about the forms that early animals took, but our research published in the journal Palaeontology answers the animal ...

Ediacaran fossils of Charnia (A-C) and Shaanxilithes Photo: Courtesy of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology Chinese scientists and researchers announced on Tuesday the discovery of new ...

A postgraduate student of the Faculty of Geology of MSU, working with an international scientific group, participated in chemical analysis of biomarkers -- compounds that remained after the ...

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Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill received funding from the John Templeton Foundation and the UK Palaeontological Association. When did animals originate? Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin may have speculated ...

The fossil group called the Ediacaran biota have been troubling researchers for a long time. How do these peculiar organisms relate to modern organisms? In a new study researchers from suggest the ...