The Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition marks the most important geobiological
revolution of the past billion years, including the Earth's first crisis of macroscopic eukaryotic …

Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing
specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living …

Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marks one of the most important geobiological
revolutions in Earth History, including multiple waves of evolutionary radiation and …

Echinoderms are a major group (phylum) of invertebrate animals with a rich fossil record
stretching back to the Cambrian period, approximately 518 million years ago. While all …

The mid-late Ediacaran Period (~ 579–541 Ma) is characterized by globally distributed
marine soft-bodied organisms of unclear phylogenetic affinities colloquially called the …

The end‐Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct
configurations of Earth's biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic …

Mobility represents a key innovation in the evolution of complex animal life. The ability to
move allows for the exploration of new food sources, escapes from unfavorable …

The radiation of early animals involved dramatic turnover of both eukaryotic life and marine
environments, but the factors that drove origination and extinction of taxa remain …

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

Suspension feeding is a key ecological strategy in modern oceans that provides a link
between pelagic and benthic systems. Establishing when suspension feeding first became …