Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests #AvalonBiota lasted longer https://phys.org/news/2026-02-exceptionally-million-year-site-avalon.html paper: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G54217.1/725338/Ediacaran-endlings-from-the-Avalon-Assemblage-and

"That loss of diversity in the late #Ediacaran has long been recognized as the #KotlinCrisis, making it the first #extinction event that #animals ever experienced. The percentage of known macroorganisms that went #extinct at the Kotlin Crisis event is, in light of this newly published study, considered to be around 80%"

The Long and the Weak of It—The #Ediacaran Magnetic Field https://eos.org/articles/the-long-and-the-weak-of-it-the-ediacaran-magnetic-field

"Our planet’s magnetic field was remarkably weak then, and new research suggests that that situation persisted for roughly 3 times longer (70 million years) than previously believed. That negligible magnetic field likely resulted in increased atmospheric oxygen levels, which in turn could have facilitated the observed growth of macroscopic organisms"

Day 6: Dickinsonia

Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

The Ediacaran: Flesh plants. Flesh plants! Great wobbling frisbee beasts! Flesh plants—

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #Paleoart #dickinsonia #digitalart #mastoart #creativetoots #ediacaran #geology #science

My nine-year-old is complaining because their natural history books don't have enough to say about the Ediacaran Period. Naturally, I turn to fedi for suggestions of resources I can point them at. Any thoughts? We already listen to the Common Descent podcast.

#geology #paleontology #ediacaran #precambrian

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Ediacaran #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran #Ediacara #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

#Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran