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

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... These toughened-up creatures represented a crucial innovation: hard bodies offering animals both a defense against enemies and a framework ...

Wormy creatures had long been wriggling along ... factor that brought oblivion to the Ediacarans and triggered the Cambrian explosion—there also were changes in ocean chemistry that allowed ...

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

With the explosion of life in Earth’s seas ... which looked similar to a modern lamprey’s mouth. These strange Cambrian creatures, which quickly evolved all sorts of odd solutions to surviving ...

The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive ... which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian Explosion event.” The findings go beyond just fossils ...

Most creatures were blind, so colour was of little use ... 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the ...

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...