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 ...

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 ...

A 558-million-year-old fossil uncovered Earth’s oldest known animal — say hello to Dickinsonia, a bizarre animal from ancient Ediacaran oceans. With no head or limbs, Dickinsonia resembled ...

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 ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago ... Instead, he thinks the 200-year-old drawing illustrates a long-extinct animal that ...

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 distinguished ...