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 protect them in seas that ...

Timorebestia: Predatory Titans of the Cambrian Seas Recent research has shed light on a remarkable discovery from northern Greenland’s Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, dating to over 518 million ...

As a result, the Cambrian seas were the birthplace of the first mouths, eyes and legs. Some of the odd critters living in these ancient seas included Opabinia, which had five eyes and an elephant ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it ...

Y. yuanshi inhabited the Cambrian seas and helped give rise to living arthropods like insects, spiders and crabs. Despite being about the size of a grain of sand, the fossil is exceptionally well ...

I had been teaching evolutionary history for more than 19 years, describing to students how life in the prehistoric seas was a testing ground where the familiar adaptations for life originally ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing ... strange animals looked when life was confined to the seas over half a billion years ago. "One of the star exhibits ...