Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

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

the late Ediacaran–Cambrian (~571 to 485 million years ago), which saw the initial radiation of large and complex multicellular eukaryotes (Ediacara biota) and the diversification of animal phyla ...

This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion ...