The colonisation of freshwater and marine ecosystems by land vertebrates has repeatedly
occurred in amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals over the course of 300 million years …

Suspension feeders (SFs) evolved a high diversity of mechanisms, sometimes with
remarkably convergent morphologies, to retain plankton, detritus and man-made particles …

Late Ediacaran strata from Newfoundland, Canada (~ 574–560 Ma) document near-census
palaeocommunities of some of the earliest metazoans. Such preservation enables …

For almost 150 years, megascopic structures in siliciclastic sequences of terminal
Precambrian age have been frustratingly difficult to characterize and classify. As with all …

Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary strata in the Great Basin of the southwestern
United States record biological, geochemical, and tectonic change during the transformative …

Rangeomorphs are among the oldest putative eumetazoans known from the fossil record.
Establishing how they fed is thus key to understanding the structure and function of the …

Ernietta plateauensis is a semi-infaunal macroscopic eukaryote of unknown affinities
common in latest Ediacaran (∼ 548–539 Ma) shallow marine settings in Namibia. The …

Studies surrounding the evolution of sensory system anatomy in cetaceans over the last~
100 years have shed light on aspects of the early evolution of hearing sensitivities, the small …

Decimeter-scale, elongate, fossil fronds from the Ediacara Range in South Australia were
formally described as Rangea longa Glaessner and Wade, 1966, but the disparate nature of …

Pteridinium simplex is an iconic erniettomorph taxon best known from late Ediacaran
successions in South Australia, Russia, and Namibia. Despite nearly 100 years of study …