A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this animal was the apex predator of its era—a true nightmare of the Cambrian ...

with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was ... Specimen from Florida Keys Marine Life Although these rangeomorphs dominated the deep-sea ecosystem at Mistaken Point for ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

I travelled to the Rockies to help discover the history of animal life Maydianne C.B. Andrade ... the shapes and lives of the animals that swam in a Cambrian sea more than 500 million years ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest molluscs, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...