A finger pointing to a small, fat cylindrical fossil in a slab of rock. There is also a fossil that looks like a squashed, oval jellyfish (?).

Now, a #SundayPixDistance image that’s about distant time. My finger is pointing to a little Spriggina fossil, while a Dickinsonia fossil is nearby. These tiny animal fossils are pre-Cambrian, 550+ million years old. 🤯 #Ediacara #Nilpena #Ikara #FlindersRanges #SundayPix #SouthAustralia

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JOB ALERT! Site Interpreter for the soon to open Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia. The ability to present complex scientific information in easily understandable way with an artistic flair are essential. #palaeontology #Nilpena #Ediacara

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#FossilFriday Kürzlich hatte ich für Natur einen detaillierten Beitrag über die Tiere der #Ediacara Faunen geschrieben (s u).
Bisher waren nur AUF d Meeresboden sitzende Arten bekant.
Jetzt sind aus d #Shibantan #Fossillagerstätte #Spurenfossilien von IM Sediment bohrenden Tieren publiziert worden

Am #FossilFriday möchte ich nochmal auf meinen #Ediacara -Artikel in Natur hinweisen. Da kann man richtig ins #Präkambrium abtauchen!

Online (PW) oder gedruckt

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Wie Paläontologen wie Simon Darroch ihnen mit neuen bildgebenden Verfahren u Geochemie auf die Spur kamen, steht im Artikel. Es lohnt sich – ich habe an keiner anderen Stelle einen so detaillierten Überblick dazu gefunden : )

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#FossilFriday #Ediacara
Sie begannen als Fraktale Körper, bildeten Tierwälder u lenkten Strömungen um, manche trippelten auf Beinchen über den Meeresboden, ganz Fortschrittliche entwickelten sogar ein Vorderende.

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#FossilFriday #Ediacara
Wie sie aussahen, wer wen gefressen hat u wie sie ihre Umgebung umbauten, könnt ihr jetzt in meinem detaillierten Artikel in der August Ausgabe der "Natur" nachlesen.
Spoiler. Sie sind noch viel schräger, als ich gedacht hätte

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#FossilFriday #Ediacara
Ediacara Tiere sind die ersten nachgewiesenen mehrzelligen Organismen. Simon Darroch erforscht sie u hat sie in Computersimulationen zum Leben erweckt. Ich habe ihn im Senckenberg Museum besucht u die Fossilien bewundert

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#FossilFriday #Ediacara
im Studium hörte ich erstmals von Vendian oder Precambrian fossils. Allerdings war darüber kaum etwas bekannt. Das Thema hat mich nicht losgelassen. Jetzt konnte ich es für "Natur" schreiben u mir damit einen Herzenswunsch erfüllen

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100 Jahre später wurden die ersten präkambrischen Fossilien entdeckt. Allerdings ließen sie sich nicht zuordnen. Ihre Fossil Erhaltung war schlecht, sie hatten weder Panzer noch Skelette. Sie waren anders als alle späteren Tiere.

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#FossilFriday #Ediacara - der Ursprung der Tiere
Die geheimnisvolle Ediacara Fauna lebte von 580 Bis 541 Mio Jahren. Dann, im Kambrium, entwickelten sich die Tiergruppen, die bis heute auf der Erde leben. Die ersten Hinweise auf noch ältere Lebensformen gab schon Charles Darwin.

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A reddish, circular sticker of a bilateral creature.

This is a 5cm sticker of an Ediacaran fossil that I picked up at Nilpena and then stupidly didn’t label. Can anyone ID it for me? It looks a bit like a Dickinsonia but there aren’t any “ribs” coming off the central spine. #ediacara @gizmotron.bsky.social #fossils

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A few zooms into my painting of Haootia, commissioned by McIlroy et al (2022). #Haootia fossils from Newfoundland (Late #Ediacara, 550Ma) have the oldest evidence for animal muscles. Also pictured are #Charnia and some #Parviscopa.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022 I worked with McIlroy et al on a new reconstruction of Haootia (Stauroza), from the Late Ediacaran (550 Ma). The #Haootia fossils from Newfoundland, Canada, have the oldest known evidence for animal muscle tissue.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Ediacara

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022 I worked with McIlroy et al on a new description of Haootia, from the Late Ediacaran. #Haootia fossils from Newfoundland have the oldest evidence for animal muscle. Also pictured are a reclining #Charnia & #Parviscopa.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Ediacara

#Ediacara Fossil #FossilFriday

Tiny worm makes for big evolutionary discovery: Scientists describe 'Uncus,' the oldest ecdysozoan Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa.

“Ediacaran animals, which lived 635–538 million years ago, were ocean dwellers; their remains preserved as cast-like impressions on the seabed that later hardened to rock…uncovering them is a labor-intensive, delicate process…“ #ediacara #fossils #PreCambrian #SouthAustralia #Nilpena

A CLOSER LOOK AT EDIACARAN MISTAKEN POINT (565Ma), part 2 of 2.

MUN Paleobiology (@dmcediacaran.bsky.social) are redescribing these wonderful creatures & some are now reclining! We've been working on this composition for 4 years.

#FossilFriday #SciArt #PaleoArt #Ediacara #Charnia

A CLOSER LOOK AT EDIACARAN MISTAKEN POINT (565Ma), part 1 of 2.

MUN Paleobiology (@dmcediacaran.bsky.social) are redescribing these wonderful creatures & some are now reclining! We've been working on this composition for 4 years.

#FossilFriday #SciArt #PaleoArt #Ediacara #Charnia

WELCOME TO EDIACARAN MISTAKEN POINT (565Ma).

If you thought this environment was like a miniature forest of sea pens, think again. MUN Paleobiology (@dmcediacaran.bsky.social) are redescribing these wonderful creatures & some are now reclining!

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Ediacara #Charnia

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A few photos from the day I spent filming at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, in 2018. The crew were there to film the Ediacaran fossils and talk to the palaeontologists at Monument University Newfoundland.

#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #Ediacaran #Ediacara

Australia's Nilpena Ediacara National Park: A Site for Astrobiology Deep within the largest mountain range in South Australia lies a formation that holds one of the most important records of geological history on Earth. Astrobiologists and other...

“The Nilpena #Ediacara National Park sits on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha people in what is now the state of South Australia. In fact, the geological #EdiacaranPeriod derives its name from the Adnyamathanha language.” #fossils #astrobiology #palaeontology ⚒️🧪 #AlicesRestaurantBed

Flinders fossil unlocks secrets of first animals on Earth New fossil gives clues about earliest life

“Measuring up to 8cm wide, the #fossils are the preserved imprints of organisms that likely moved along what was once the seafloor but is now part of the majestic Flinders Ranges landscape.” #Ediacara #Ikara #EdiacaranEra 🧪⚒️ #FlindersRanges

Ancient sponges or just algae? New research overturns chemical evidence for the earliest animals Ancient fatty molecules, once believed to be traces of some of the first animals to live on Earth, may have been produced by algae instead.

“The earliest evidence for animals on Earth is now the 558 million-years-old Dickinsonia & other Ediacaran animals.” The #EdiacaranEra was 2 galactic years ago. A galactic year is how long it takes our solar system to revolve around our galaxy. 🤯🧪🪐 ⚒️ #palaeontology #Ediacara

Friday essay: the silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium History is writ large in the remote areas around Woomera and the Nullarbor: from the fossils of microscopic, cell-like creatures to ancient stone tools to the deitrus of rocket tests and the painful l...

“Wind and water were the only sounds, but there was nothing yet with ears to hear them.” A longform piece on this amazing region. #ediacara #EdiacaranEra #FlindersRanges #Ikara

All polyp, no disk
Back in Ediacara
Nature gave ahoot

#haiku #paleontology #ediacara

And certainly one of my favourite fossils ever, the enigmatic (and very cute) #Eoandromeda octobrachiata from #Nilpena Station http://www.ediacaran.org/eoandromeda.html #Ediacara #deeptime #palaeontology #550millionyearsago

There she is — the giant #Dickinsonia rex (or, D-rex, as we like to say) from a 550 million year-old #Ediacara formation in #Ikara #FlindersRangesNationalPark http://www.ediacaran.org/dickinsonia.html #Ediacaran #palaeontology #deeptime

Tomorrow @GlobEcoFlinders has the pleasure and good fortune to host one of the world’s leading #Ediacara specialists, #palaeontologist Professor Mary Droser of @UCRCNAS scholar.google.com.au/citations

Our (@dgarciabellido, Jim Gehling & me) PhD student, @half_a_billion, just submitted her brilliant thesis today! Congratulations, Felicity! @SAMuseum. Big shout-out too to Prof Mary Droser of @UCRiverside #Ediacara #palaeoecology #Parvancorina #halfabillionyearsofevoluion