From the Editors

Gallery | October 2018 cover

Enigmatic Ediacaran organisms - Tribrachidium (top) and Ivovicia (bottom) - formed complex benthic communities ~15 million years before the Cambrian Explosion of animals. Image: Marc Laflamme. Cover Design: Bethany Vukomanovic.

Darroch, S. A. F., et al. High ecological complexity in benthic Ediacaran communities. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2, 1541-1547 (2018).