Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

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

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

The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs ... Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual evolution ...

This daily feast-and-famine cycle in oxygen availability created an intense physiological challenge for early animals, ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota ... it was the largest hunter of its time. "Besides its size, its ...