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

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

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

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

Cambrian fossils are known from many sites, but usually only from remains of shells and other hard parts; here, owing to some accident of geology, entire organisms were preserved with eyes ...

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

Three of its weapons are visible in the fossil shown here: claws, propulsive swimming flaps, and at the base of the claws, eyes on eyestalks. The emergence of vision in the Cambrian helped both ...

Talk about understatement. The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion—evolution's Big Bang—when relatively simple organisms rapidly diversified into the ...

It has long been suspected that the sparseness of the pre-Cambrian fossil record reflects these two problems. First, organisms may not have sequestered and secreted much in the way of fossilizable ...

Photograph by James L. Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...

Now, with access to uniquely well-preserved Cambrian fossils, Dr Greg Edgecombe and Dr Xiaoya Ma are seeing the evolution of vision through the world's oldest eyes. To understand the eyes of ancient ...

In a new study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Harvard researchers in the Department of Organismic and ...