The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...

Until now, we had no concrete fossil evidence to confirm it.” Hughes discovered Uncus nestled in fine-grained sandstone at NENP, a site well-regarded for its remarkably preserved Ediacaran ...

A team of researchers has identified the earliest known ecdysozoan fossil, which originated from the Precambrian era, the Ediacaran Period. The fossil is of a small, worm-like creature named Uncus ...