A scientific discovery has brought a 520-million-year-old larva back to life in ways previously thought impossible. For the ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

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 ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We know what fossils look like. For example ... of early arthropods—a group that came into being during the Cambrian Explosion and includes creatures like crabs, lobsters, insects, and millipedes.