How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Paleontologists rejoice, because Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia—one of the best-preserved fossil sites in the world—just opened as the world's newest national park. Located about a ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Robyn Williams: Well Bob, in Australia we have plenty of Ediacara, fossils from long, long ago, long before dinosaurs or any other backboned beasts you can think of. Bob McDonald: Well, Robyn, you ...

The 550-million-year-old fossil Tribrachidium heraldicum is one of the most enigmatic critters from the Ediacaran. With its circular, three-lobe form, it doesn't resemble any modern organism. The ...

An internationally significant fossil site in the Flinders Ranges, believed to contain the earliest evidence of sexual interaction, is now part of the Ediacara Conservation Park. Ediacara fossils ...

Researchers have used biomarkers in ancient rocks to learn more about the environmental conditions and food sources that sustained the Ediacara Biota. Some of the earliest animals on Earth were ...

IN the ancient land of the Flinders Ranges lies a treasure trove of fossils which could change the way we view how life developed on Earth. Jade Gailberger explains. The Flinders Ranges lie 500km ...

Alice Gorman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Space Industry Association of Australia and the Alternate State Delegate for the South Australian Chapter of the Australian Association of ...

In 1947, geologist Reginald C. Sprigg announced the discovery of large fossils from the Ediacara Hills in the Australian Outback. Dating of the rock formations revealed that the Ediacaran fauna was ...