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  1. Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04-03-spect

    The dawn of the #Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late #Ediacaran of Southwest China science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "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."

  2. Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04-03-spect

    The dawn of the #Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late #Ediacaran of Southwest China science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "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."

  3. Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04-03-spect

    The dawn of the #Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late #Ediacaran of Southwest China science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "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."

  4. Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04-03-spect

    The dawn of the #Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late #Ediacaran of Southwest China science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "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."

  5. A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained

    Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #Ediacaran #geologicalrecord #magneticfield #Researchers #Science #TectonicPlates #volcanicrocks #YaleUniversity
    newsbeep.com/us/268406/

  6. A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained

    Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #Ediacaran #geologicalrecord #Magneticfield #Researchers #Science #Tectonicplates #volcanicrocks #YaleUniversity
    newsbeep.com/au/258263/

  7. A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained

    Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #Ediacaran #geologicalrecord #Magneticfield #Researchers #Science #Tectonicplates #volcanicrocks #YaleUniversity
    newsbeep.com/au/258263/

  8. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Ediacaran #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  9. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Ediacaran #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  10. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Ediacaran #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  11. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Ediacaran #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  12. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    A few more zooms with species labels from my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, and microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Ediacaran #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  13. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran #Ediacara #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  14. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran #Ediacara #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  15. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran #Ediacara #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  16. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran #Ediacara #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  17. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran #Ediacara #Newfoundland #MistakenPoint

  18. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran

  19. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran

  20. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran

  21. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran

  22. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    Here's my 2024 Mistaken Point Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with Dr Duncan McIlroy and his team at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Featured are #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia #Charniodiscus #Ivesheadiomorph #Primocandelabrum #Bradgatia #Thectardis #Lydonia, sea anemone, & microbial mats.

    #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #FossilFriday #Ediacaran

  23. Oh, AI -- is there anything you can't screw up? On the left, supposedly a picture of Ediacaran animal(?) Dicksonia costata, while on the right we have what they actually look like.

    From the truly dreadful an*malsaroundth*gl*be.com, wot I just came across. Censored to prevent any possible automated cataloguing of the place.

    #Ediacaran #AINonsense

  24. Ediacaran (Geological periods 🌍)

    The Ediacaran is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya. It is the last period of the Proterozoic Eon as well as the last of the so-called "Precambrian supereon", before the beginning of the subsequent Cambrian P...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacara

    #Ediacaran #Neoproterozoic #GeologicalPeriods #ProterozoicGeochronology

  25. Ediacaran (Geological periods 🌍)

    The Ediacaran is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya. It is the last period of the Proterozoic Eon as well as the last of the so-called "Precambrian supereon", before the beginning of the subsequent Cambrian P...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacara

    #Ediacaran #Neoproterozoic #GeologicalPeriods #ProterozoicGeochronology

  26. A Magnetic Low May Have Paved the Way for Complex Life eos.org/articles/a-magnetic-lo

    Near-collapse of the #GeomagneticField may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and #animal radiation in the #Ediacaran Period nature.com/articles/s43247-024

    "the planet’s magnetic field was at a record low—around 30 times lower than today—for 26 million years starting around 565 million years ago. Such a drastic dip in magnetic field intensity could have had massive implications"

  27. A Magnetic Low May Have Paved the Way for Complex Life eos.org/articles/a-magnetic-lo

    Near-collapse of the #GeomagneticField may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and #animal radiation in the #Ediacaran Period nature.com/articles/s43247-024

    "the planet’s magnetic field was at a record low—around 30 times lower than today—for 26 million years starting around 565 million years ago. Such a drastic dip in magnetic field intensity could have had massive implications"

  28. Earth's earliest sea #animals drove #evolution by stirring the water
    phys.org/news/2024-05-earth-ea

    #Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans: Susana Gutarra et al. cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "one of the most important Ediacaran organisms for disrupting the flow of water was the cabbage-shaped #Bradgatia... they might have been capable of enhancing local oxygen concentrations... making other areas of the sea floor more habitable"

  29. Earth's earliest sea #animals drove #evolution by stirring the water
    phys.org/news/2024-05-earth-ea

    #Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans: Susana Gutarra et al. cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "one of the most important Ediacaran organisms for disrupting the flow of water was the cabbage-shaped #Bradgatia... they might have been capable of enhancing local oxygen concentrations... making other areas of the sea floor more habitable"

  30. Earth's earliest sea #animals drove #evolution by stirring the water
    phys.org/news/2024-05-earth-ea

    #Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans: Susana Gutarra et al. cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "one of the most important Ediacaran organisms for disrupting the flow of water was the cabbage-shaped #Bradgatia... they might have been capable of enhancing local oxygen concentrations... making other areas of the sea floor more habitable"

  31. Earth's earliest sea #animals drove #evolution by stirring the water
    phys.org/news/2024-05-earth-ea

    #Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans: Susana Gutarra et al. cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "one of the most important Ediacaran organisms for disrupting the flow of water was the cabbage-shaped #Bradgatia... they might have been capable of enhancing local oxygen concentrations... making other areas of the sea floor more habitable"

  32. Earth's earliest sea #animals drove #evolution by stirring the water
    phys.org/news/2024-05-earth-ea

    #Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans: Susana Gutarra et al. cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "one of the most important Ediacaran organisms for disrupting the flow of water was the cabbage-shaped #Bradgatia... they might have been capable of enhancing local oxygen concentrations... making other areas of the sea floor more habitable"

  33. Ediacaran (Geological periods 🌍)

    The Ediacaran is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian period at 538.8 Mya. It is the last period of the Proterozoic eon as well as the last of the so-called "Precambrian supereon", before the beginning of the subsequent Cambrian p...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacara

    #Ediacaran #Neoproterozoic #GeologicalPeriods #ProterozoicGeochronology

  34. #Ediacaran #fossils reveal origins of #biomineralization that led to expansion of life on Earth
    phys.org/news/2023-09-ediacara

    Constraining the onset and environmental setting of #metazoan biomineralization sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    "#Cloudina originated in a low #oxygen environment with periods of notably higher #oxygenation... it was not a case of sustained oxygenation that resulted in the appearance of #skeletonization... high #carbonate concentrations in the ocean were necessary"

  35. #Ediacaran #fossils reveal origins of #biomineralization that led to expansion of life on Earth
    phys.org/news/2023-09-ediacara

    Constraining the onset and environmental setting of #metazoan biomineralization sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    "#Cloudina originated in a low #oxygen environment with periods of notably higher #oxygenation... it was not a case of sustained oxygenation that resulted in the appearance of #skeletonization... high #carbonate concentrations in the ocean were necessary"

  36. #Ediacaran #fossils reveal origins of #biomineralization that led to expansion of life on Earth
    phys.org/news/2023-09-ediacara

    Constraining the onset and environmental setting of #metazoan biomineralization sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    "#Cloudina originated in a low #oxygen environment with periods of notably higher #oxygenation... it was not a case of sustained oxygenation that resulted in the appearance of #skeletonization... high #carbonate concentrations in the ocean were necessary"

  37. #Ediacaran #fossils reveal origins of #biomineralization that led to expansion of life on Earth
    phys.org/news/2023-09-ediacara

    Constraining the onset and environmental setting of #metazoan biomineralization sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    "#Cloudina originated in a low #oxygen environment with periods of notably higher #oxygenation... it was not a case of sustained oxygenation that resulted in the appearance of #skeletonization... high #carbonate concentrations in the ocean were necessary"

  38. #Ediacaran #fossils reveal origins of #biomineralization that led to expansion of life on Earth
    phys.org/news/2023-09-ediacara

    Constraining the onset and environmental setting of #metazoan biomineralization sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    "#Cloudina originated in a low #oxygen environment with periods of notably higher #oxygenation... it was not a case of sustained oxygenation that resulted in the appearance of #skeletonization... high #carbonate concentrations in the ocean were necessary"

  39. Study challenges assumption that higher #oxygen levels led to rise of multicellular organisms in Earth's oceans phys.org/news/2023-07-assumpti

    Widespread #seafloor #anoxia during generation of the #Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "there was no major increase in the amount of oxygen when more advanced #fauna began to evolve and dominate Earth. In fact, there was somewhat of a slight decrease"