left fossils of the trails they made as they moved through the Precambrian mud. Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in ...

You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under your nose.

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to protect them in seas that were ...

that the fossils were about 550 million years old—dating to at least 10 million years before a better known evolutionary drama, the famous Cambrian explosion. Scientists until then had believed ...

Fossils of Ambulocetus, found in ancient estuary sediments, suggest it lived both on land and in water, bridging the gap between terrestrial ancestors and modern whales. The Cambrian Explosion ...

Others in the paleontological community took the fossils as evidence of a more slow and steady animal evolution than the Cambrian explosion model would suggest.Now, Bengtson says, Matz has found an ...

The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the explosion, initiating an arms race between organisms that were increasingly aware of their surroundings. Now, with access to uniquely ...

This is a Cambrian trilobite fossil from Utah. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

In 2012, Chengjiang was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it was ...

A fossil analysis suggests that the yunnanozoan ... Vertebrates are thought to have emerged during the Cambrian explosion around 520 million years ago, but the point in time at which these animals ...

left fossils of the trails they made as they moved through the Precambrian mud. Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in ...