Interesting study, but coverage is undermined by using fake AI-generated fossils ("Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com") rather than authentic specimens. I am not aware of any actual Ediacaran fossils that look like this. To be clear, this is a criticism of Science Daily, not the authors of the study.
Silica-rich and iron-rich seawater in Ediacaran oceans enabled clay minerals to grow around the buried organisms, cementing sand into the shapes of the soft creatures, preserving impressions for all time ⚒️🧪🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists finally explain Earth’s strangest fossils
The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in sa...
www.sciencedaily.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Interesting study, but coverage is undermined by using fake AI-generated fossils ("Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com") rather than authentic specimens. I am not aware of any actual Ediacaran fossils that look like this. To be clear, this is a criticism of Science Daily, not the authors of the study.
Silica-rich and iron-rich seawater in Ediacaran oceans enabled clay minerals to grow around the buried organisms, cementing sand into the shapes of the soft creatures, preserving impressions for all time ⚒️🧪🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists finally explain Earth’s strangest fossils
The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in sa...
www.sciencedaily.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Silica-rich and iron-rich seawater in Ediacaran oceans enabled clay minerals to grow around the buried organisms, cementing sand into the shapes of the soft creatures, preserving impressions for all time ⚒️🧪🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
To be fair, it’s not like you can just *find* freely usable images of Ediacaran fossils online … commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
To be fair, it’s not like you can just *find* freely usable images of Ediacaran fossils online … commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
(My FIL spent his career developing a fantastic understanding of Ediacaran life, so I’m a bit surrounded by fossil stories like your “someday”)
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
(My FIL spent his career developing a fantastic understanding of Ediacaran life, so I’m a bit surrounded by fossil stories like your “someday”)
Happy #FossilFriday we just got page proofs of our paper on the diversity and geochronology of our #InnerMeadow site so let’s celebrate by sharing the first #Erniettomorph from the #Ediacaran of Newfoundland, #Phyllozoon (right) with a bonus #Bradgatia top left.
January 23, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Happy #FossilFriday we just got page proofs of our paper on the diversity and geochronology of our #InnerMeadow site so let’s celebrate by sharing the first #Erniettomorph from the #Ediacaran of Newfoundland, #Phyllozoon (right) with a bonus #Bradgatia top left.
idk if any other artist is like this but i listen to podcasts / video essays while working, and then i always remember what i listened to whenever i look at the resulting artwork. so if you commission me just know that to me it's the eleanor of aquitaine piece. or the ediacaran fossils sketch. etc
January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM
idk if any other artist is like this but i listen to podcasts / video essays while working, and then i always remember what i listened to whenever i look at the resulting artwork. so if you commission me just know that to me it's the eleanor of aquitaine piece. or the ediacaran fossils sketch. etc
I recently learned that some salt deposits can be as old as the Cambrian-Ediacaran. So does this imply that our salt might contain traces of trilobite poop?
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I recently learned that some salt deposits can be as old as the Cambrian-Ediacaran. So does this imply that our salt might contain traces of trilobite poop?
Happy #FossilFriday from a wet cold La Niña Newfoundland. How about a new #Ediacaran fossil teaser, from a brand new fossil site north of St. John’s? This is one of several remarkable fossils that came out of a rockfall and discovered by my PhD student Pascal Olschewski. A new species of #Arborea!
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Happy #FossilFriday from a wet cold La Niña Newfoundland. How about a new #Ediacaran fossil teaser, from a brand new fossil site north of St. John’s? This is one of several remarkable fossils that came out of a rockfall and discovered by my PhD student Pascal Olschewski. A new species of #Arborea!
The weird and wonderful of the Ediacaran Period (Part 3): Dickinsonia – the iconic quilt-like organism of the Ediacaran
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the third of my series of short articles on fossils of the Ediacaran Period. Dickinsonia is one of the most recognisable and debated organisms of the…
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the third of my series of short articles on fossils of the Ediacaran Period. Dickinsonia is one of the most recognisable and debated organisms of the…
The weird and wonderful of the Ediacaran Period (Part 3): Dickinsonia – the iconic quilt-like organism of the Ediacaran
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the third of my series of short articles on fossils of the Ediacaran Period. Dickinsonia is one of the most recognisable and debated organisms of the Ediacaran Period, living between 558 and 550 million years ago on shallow seafloors long before the rise of animals with hard parts.
depositsmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The weird and wonderful of the Ediacaran Period (Part 3): Dickinsonia – the iconic quilt-like organism of the Ediacaran
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the third of my series of short articles on fossils of the Ediacaran Period. Dickinsonia is one of the most recognisable and debated organisms of the…
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the third of my series of short articles on fossils of the Ediacaran Period. Dickinsonia is one of the most recognisable and debated organisms of the…
I had the pleasure of working with Duncan & learning from his team's research while collaborating on the UNESCO Discovery Geopark in Newfoundland. They've given the Ediacaran fossils they've discovered Beothuk names. Below, he explains one & the fascinating stellar & human history its name reveals.
Just before Christmas we published a new rangeomorph genus #Aninoides, the first new rangeomorph genus that has been introduced for a while I believe.
I promised to explain the name after the break so here we are!
Happy New Year and happy #FossilFriday!
I promised to explain the name after the break so here we are!
Happy New Year and happy #FossilFriday!
January 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I had the pleasure of working with Duncan & learning from his team's research while collaborating on the UNESCO Discovery Geopark in Newfoundland. They've given the Ediacaran fossils they've discovered Beothuk names. Below, he explains one & the fascinating stellar & human history its name reveals.
This #FossilFriday: a wonderful new piece of research based on the #Ediacaran fossils of #Newfoundland. The name Aninoides is derived partly from the language of the Beothuk, the indigenous people of Newfoundland. Please read below to learn more!
Just before Christmas we published a new rangeomorph genus #Aninoides, the first new rangeomorph genus that has been introduced for a while I believe.
I promised to explain the name after the break so here we are!
Happy New Year and happy #FossilFriday!
I promised to explain the name after the break so here we are!
Happy New Year and happy #FossilFriday!
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This #FossilFriday: a wonderful new piece of research based on the #Ediacaran fossils of #Newfoundland. The name Aninoides is derived partly from the language of the Beothuk, the indigenous people of Newfoundland. Please read below to learn more!
January 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I love these Ediacaran frond animals 🐡🧪
January 2, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I love these Ediacaran frond animals 🐡🧪
Not only am I writing about something very similar as I see this, but now I‘m falling down a deep hole wondering what descendants of Ediacaran organisms would put on their heavy metal album covers. Shredded pool floats?
Today’s #dreadcember post involves a skull tree with fleshy and meaty trunks and veiny branches.
#darkart #procreate #horrorart
#darkart #procreate #horrorart
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Not only am I writing about something very similar as I see this, but now I‘m falling down a deep hole wondering what descendants of Ediacaran organisms would put on their heavy metal album covers. Shredded pool floats?
But they resemble Ediacaran biota, which MAY have been animals? But like, we're not actually sure WHAT they were, for the most part? There are a few, like Yilingia spiciformis, which are more recognisably animals, though. (2/3)
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
But they resemble Ediacaran biota, which MAY have been animals? But like, we're not actually sure WHAT they were, for the most part? There are a few, like Yilingia spiciformis, which are more recognisably animals, though. (2/3)
#FossilFriday Fine specimen of the problematical fossil Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran. On display at the South Australia Museum, Adelaide.
December 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#FossilFriday Fine specimen of the problematical fossil Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran. On display at the South Australia Museum, Adelaide.
I’m hoping we will one day discover that Dickinsonia was just a footprint impression of an Ediacaran elephant-like creature.
December 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m hoping we will one day discover that Dickinsonia was just a footprint impression of an Ediacaran elephant-like creature.
My tutor at UCL back in the early 1980s was credited with discovering late Ediacaran fossils in Charnwood. Roger Mason. Top bloke, as he was quick to point out that he was actually the second person to spot them. Turns out that a girl saw them a year before, but no one believed her. Go figure.
December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My tutor at UCL back in the early 1980s was credited with discovering late Ediacaran fossils in Charnwood. Roger Mason. Top bloke, as he was quick to point out that he was actually the second person to spot them. Turns out that a girl saw them a year before, but no one believed her. Go figure.
Enigmatic, we don't really know for sure what these things were besides maybe some form of early animal. They have anatomy that isn't seen in anything alive today so the problem in this case is in how we identify them. Lots of Ediacaran era life is weird prototypes we don't see anything like today.
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Enigmatic, we don't really know for sure what these things were besides maybe some form of early animal. They have anatomy that isn't seen in anything alive today so the problem in this case is in how we identify them. Lots of Ediacaran era life is weird prototypes we don't see anything like today.
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December 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Materials that escaped one planet can eventually find itself on another. For Terra, no world is a bigger recipient of these letters than their own moon, Luna.
More information in ALT TEXT!
#ACelestialJournal #art #gijinka #astronomy #space #SolarSystem #planet #Earth #Terra #Moon #Luna
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#ACelestialJournal #art #gijinka #astronomy #space #SolarSystem #planet #Earth #Terra #Moon #Luna
Casually curious as a total layperson, but as they both date to the Ediacaran Period is it thought possible one may represent the embryonic form of the other, or can that be ruled out?
December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Casually curious as a total layperson, but as they both date to the Ediacaran Period is it thought possible one may represent the embryonic form of the other, or can that be ruled out?
Aninoides: a new rangeomorph genus from the upper Ediacaran of Newfoundland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @dmcediacaran.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Aninoides: a new rangeomorph genus from the upper Ediacaran of Newfoundland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @dmcediacaran.bsky.social
Everything we know about prehistoric flora and fauna is based on preservation bias, and there's controversy about what Ediacaran fossil traces actually represent.
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Everything we know about prehistoric flora and fauna is based on preservation bias, and there's controversy about what Ediacaran fossil traces actually represent.