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

A mysterious fossilized creature discovered more than a century ago has finally been decoded, offering stunning insights into ...

A groundbreaking discovery has surfaced from the depths of the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota, which existed around 535 million years ago in Shaanxi Province, China. Here, researchers have ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

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.

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I focus on a pivotal interval in Earth’s history, the late Ediacaran–Cambrian (~571 to 485 million years ago), which saw the initial radiation of large and complex multicellular eukaryotes (Ediacara ...

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