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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most scientists give the credit to a group of mossy swamp-dwellers that originated underwater, but new evidence points to a mysterious life-form that lived--and died--millions of years earlier. By ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...