If you’ve ever wondered what the oldest animal on Earth is, or other old creatures living on Earth, continue reading below.

Dickinsonia, seen here as a fossil, is Earth’s oldest confirmed animal. It was first discovered ... 558 million years old. He said he wanted to try to extract fossil fat from these fossils ...

But some animals on Earth can live for hundreds or even thousands ... studies or specimens that have been found to be that old. But many of these animals never actually live that long.

Scientists recently found one billion-year-old fungi in Canada, changing the way we view evolution and the timing of plants and animals here on Earth. The fossilized specimen was collected in ...

Tracks from a worm-like creature were preserved in fossils nearly 550 million years old ... And the ability for animals to move, and move with purpose, transformed the Earth, study author and ...

Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered ... earliest animals to arise on our planet. But exactly when that happened remains under debate. However, most claims of extremely old fossilized ...

Simple animal life may have existed in Earth’s oceans 890 million years ... Cambrian stuff than something that is a million years old and has mammoth bones in it,” Bottjer said.

But how would scientists even go about estimating the total number of animals on Earth, let alone determining ... thereby erasing old impressions, stone and bone. "The standard estimate is that ...

Professor Philip Donoghue from the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences ... older ideas suggesting that animals might be twice or three times as old as the oldest animal fossil ...

Given the alien nature of Ediacaran Earth, the researchers were surprised to find an animal that lived much the ... making a living for something so very old,” said Mary Droser, UCR ...

[Related: This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one ... “Our findings suggest that the animals of the Ediacara biota, which lived on Earth prior to the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of modern ...