We call them the Ediacaran biota. The traces of one of these early complex creatures has just been unearthed in the South Australian outback, and its intricate design rivals all other fossils ...

Lifeforms from the era are known as the Ediacaran Biota, which Garcia-Bellido said is because we usually don’t know for sure ...

Dickinsonia belongs to a group of life forms known as the Ediacaran biota. They were the first complex multi-cellular organisms to appear on Earth. But they have been extremely difficult to ...

In the hunt for the earliest animal life, much attention has been focused on a group of enigmatic life forms - known as the "Ediacaran biota" - from more than 500 million years ago. These were ...