Rangeomorphs had no mouths, guts, arms, legs or reproductive organs, but an ancient "network" of strings may have helped them dominate the ocean floor anyway. When you purchase through links on our ...

Rangeomorphs, fern-like animals from the Ediacaran period, were distinguished, to say the least. In their hey day, these early lifeforms colonized entire sea floors and grew up to two meters tall.

The earliest example of reproduction in a complex organism has been discovered in a 565 million-year-old rangeomorph fossil by University of Cambridge researchers. Rangeomorphs are considered to be ...

This is a paleontological reconstruction of rangeomorph fronds from the Ediacaran Period (635-541 million years ago). These species are from the deep-marine Avalon Assemblage (approximately 575-560 ...

Fossils of rangeomorphs, which dominated the oceans more than a half-billion years ago, show the thin threads that connected them. By Cara Giaimo More than half a billion years ago, peculiar beings ...

The program running on Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill’s computer is deceptively simple. First, it creates a cylinder. As the cylinder grows, it sprouts branches, first to the left and then to the right, ...

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story. IS IT a tree? Is it a fern? No, it’s a rangeomorph, one of the first complex organisms to evolve. A new analysis of ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A fossil of a 'baby' ...

This is a paleontological reconstruction of rangeomorph fronds from the Ediacaran Period (635-541 million years ago). These species are from the deep-marine Avalon Assemblage (approximately 575-560 ...

Is it a tree? Is it a fern? No, it’s a rangeomorph, one of the first complex organisms to evolve on Earth. A new analysis of their fossils suggests that rangeomorphs’ strange bodies evolved to absorb ...