| 1 | The Ediacaran fossils tell us that Darwin was being too generous. | |
| 2 | The affinity of phosphatized globular fossils, one of the important types in the Ediacaran Weng'an biota, was first interpreted as that of green algae. | |
| 3 | The Austrilian geologists hurried to Ediacara in a lorry and brought back many fossils to study. | |
| 4 | A key requirement for larger creatures is oxygen, and the dramatic history of oxygen levels is also etched in Ediacaran rocks. | |
| 5 | Some of the very flat-bodied Ediacarans, for instance, lived on sediments and appear to have fed by directly absorbing nutrients by osmosis. |