包含已知最古老的动物化石的埃迪卡拉化石组，只含有软体动物。
The Ediacara fossil formation, which contains the oldest known animal fossils, consists exclusively of soft-bodied forms.
而埃迪卡拉化石告诉我们，达尔文太“慷慨”了。
The Ediacaran fossils tell us that Darwin was being too generous.
例如，有些埃迪卡拉动物身体非常扁，附着于沉积物上生活，似乎是靠渗透直接吸取养分而活。
Some of the very flat-bodied Ediacarans, for instance, lived on sediments and appear to have fed by directly absorbing nutrients by osmosis.
埃迪卡拉纪从六亿三千五百万年前持续到五亿四千二百万年前，是近一个多世纪以来科学家命名的第一个新的地质时期。
The Ediacaran Period, from 635 to 542 million years ago, is the first new geological period to be named in more than a century.
体型更大的生物生存的关键因素是氧气，氧含量的变化史也刻在了埃迪·卡拉岩石群上。
A key requirement for larger creatures is oxygen, and the dramatic history of oxygen levels is also etched in Ediacaran rocks.
埃迪·卡拉化石的发现，将动物的形成时间从寒武纪又推早了不少。
The Ediacaran fossil record thus stretches the origins of animals to well before the Cambrian Explosion.
图中左边的样本，曾经被认为是一种具有硬壳的埃迪·卡拉藻类，其实际直径小于一毫米。
The object on the left, less than a millimetre across in reality, is an example of what were once thought to be the encysted forms of Ediacaran algae.
埃迪·卡拉纪动物群是出现的第一种大型的结构复杂的生命形式。
The Ediacaran fauna were the first large complex life forms to appear.
埃迪·卡拉纪动物群是出现的第一种大型的结构复杂的生命形式。
The Ediacaran fauna were the first large complex life forms to appear.
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