An ancient reef that once teemed with primitive sea life has been unearthed in Africa. The reef, which dates to 548 million years ago, is the oldest animal-built reef ever found. The coral-like ...

Tiny microscopic creatures created a reef 548 million years ago, and this ancient structure is the oldest-known feature of its kind in the world. Constructions like these are similar to modern coral ...

Reef builders A 548-million-year-old reef in central Namibia is the earliest known ecosystem built by hard bodied animals, according to a new study. The research led by Dr Amelia Penny and Professor ...

Using 3D digital models, researchers report that Cloudina, once purported to be architects of Earth's first animal reefs, were soft organisms that drifted into the crevices of ancient microbial ...

A sea creature that looked like a stack of tiny ice cream cones has given researchers new insight into the dawn of animal life on Earth. Scottish researchers said they have found fossils of the oldest ...

For much of life’s reign on Earth, organisms got by without skeletons. But since that innovation evolved about 550 million years ago, there’s been an evolutionary arms race of epic proportions. One of ...

In the '80s, researchers found the first fossils of Cloudina in Spain, a small fossil of tubular appearance and one of the first animals that developed an external skeleton between 550 and 543 million ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Predation as an important driver of evolutionary change long has been assumed, despite difficulties to substantiate it with specific examples ...

At the edge of a desert in southern Namibia, scientists have found the remains of the oldest known animal reef system in the world. The reef was constructed 548 million years ago in what was once a ...

The find in a Nevada desert revealed an intestine inside a creature that looks like a worm made of a stack of ice cream cones. By Lucas Joel They say you should trust your gut, which is what Emmy ...

With an industrial grinder and some creative additions, geoscientists can transform rocks into three-dimensional digital landscapes that scientists can examine from any angle. Have you ever wished you ...

Using a high-resolution camera, an industrial grinder and the help of a custom-made neural network, a duo of geologists from Princeton University have devised a way to make a 3D representation of ...