Soh Kam Yung"Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, [the study] draws on rare 567-million-year-old fossils to show animal evolution may have started far earlier than previously thought. "
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. ๐จ๐ปโ๐ป๐งฌ#Fossils reveal many complex #animals existed before the #CambrianExplosion
More than 539 million years ago, from the #Ediacaran Period, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These woodwindlike creatures are just a few of those coming to life from a treasure trove of newly discovered fossils in southwestern #China.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossils-complex-early-animals-diversity
https://archive.ph/sgnuC
More than 539 million years ago, from the #Ediacaran Period, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These woodwindlike creatures are just a few of those coming to life from a treasure trove of newly discovered fossils in southwestern #China.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossils-complex-early-animals-diversity
https://archive.ph/sgnuC
Lukas VFN ๐ช๐บSpectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04-03-spectacular-fossil-treasure-trove-pushes-back-origins-complex-animals
The dawn of the #Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late #Ediacaran of Southwest China https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu2291
"A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the #Cambrian Period."
Ars Technica NewsNew fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian https://arstechni.ca/JyYJ #paleontology #ediacaran #evolution #Cambrian #Science #Biology #fossils
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%"
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The Long and the Weak of ItโThe #Ediacaran Magnetic Field https://eos.org/articles/the-long-and-the-weak-of-it-the-ediacaran-magnetic-field
"Our planetโs 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"
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The Ediacaran: Flesh plants. Flesh plants! Great wobbling frisbee beasts! Flesh plantsโ
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #Paleoart #dickinsonia #digitalart #mastoart #creativetoots #ediacaran #geology #science
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