Ruffin Tucker has discovered more fossils from North Carolina’s Ediacaran period than any other amateur paleontologist.
Over 500 million years ago, during the Ediacaran period, an experiment began — one that would lay the foundations for humanity and all of the creatures we know today. Before predation, before teeth and bone, soft creatures filled the ocean. Some swayed back and forth like plant fronds. Others resembled tubes or worms. But all of this fauna shared significance; it marked the beginning of one of the most important shifts in evolution — the development of multicellular life.