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

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 …

The rise of arthropods is a decisive event in the history of life. Likely the first animals to have
established themselves on land and in the air, arthropods have pervaded nearly all …

The fossil record of the terminal Ediacaran Period is typified by the iconic index fossil
Cloudina and its relatives. These tube-dwellers are presumed to be primitive metazoans, but …

Paraconularia ediacara n. sp., the oldest documented conulariid cnidarian, is described
based on a compressed thin specimen from the terminal Ediacaran Tamengo Formation …

The disappearance of the soft-bodied Ediacara biota at the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary
potentially represents the earliest mass extinction of complex life, although the precise driver …

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 …

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

Over 3.7 billion years of Earth history, life has evolved complex adaptations to help navigate
and interact with the fluid environment. Consequently, fluid dynamics has become a …