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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...

The Ediacaran period, 635 million to 542 million years ago, immediately predates the Cambrian period, which saw an evolutionary explosion that led to all modern animal phyla. Fossils from an Ediacaran ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists still aren’t sure what exactly prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils tell us about life before the Cambrian Explosion, but at least they now understand why we have a remarkable fossil record ...