Many major groups of animals that have become a mainstay in modern times first appeared during the Cambrian Explosion.

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

The authors also call Cambrian-age deposits in the Qingjiang area of China "widespread," and initial samplings have suggested that similar fossils can be found at a number of other locations in ...

A new look at 500-million-year-old fossils may shake up our understanding of the Cambrian explosion's evolutionary track.

The discovery of 480-million-year-old fossils in Morocco supports the likelihood that the Cambrian Explosion’s diverse life continued to evolve.

Cambrian Explosion: Major Fossil Study Challenges Theories of Animal Evolution 540 Million Years Ago. Published May 22, 2018 at 8:17 AM EDT Updated May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM EDT.

Fossil hunting is quite the fun hobby, and if you want to indulge that interest, there are some specific places that you ...

The speed of transition seemed so shockingly abrupt that it amazed and worried even Charles Darwin. It has long been called the “Cambrian explosion." We now know it was not quite so abrupt.

In a study published in iScience an international team of researchers describe the first ctenophore fossils ever discovered in the United States. One of the two new species of fossil ctenophores ...

An unidentified species of Cambrian arthropod from the Leanchoilia genus has armlike appendages and long feelers. (Image credit: Xingliang Zhang) All told, the team uncovered fossils of more than ...

The fossils come from the Cambrian, a period dating from 540 million to 485 million years ago and known for an explosion of diversity. Some of the organisms that appeared during the Cambrian, ...