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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nilpe­na Ediacara National Park opened in South Australia on April 27. Courtesy of Nilpena National Park Australia is the flattest ...

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 ...

Earth’s earliest community of complex sea creatures lived in a warm, slimy, planetary petri dish that nurtured a broad array of exotic species. Yet we likely wouldn’t know about it at all, scientists ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 18, 2024, 03:57pm EDT Oct 19, 2024, 08:20am EDT Artistic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of ...

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 ...

As an archaeologist working in the remote areas around Woomera and the Nullarbor Plain, my understanding of South Australia was first informed by rocks and soil. This was a landscape of fossils and ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota: the Precambrian beings that some consider the first complex multicellular life forms. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests Martin Brasier, Richard ...