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

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

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

We know what fossils look like. For example ... of early arthropods—a group that came into being during the Cambrian Explosion and includes creatures like crabs, lobsters, insects, and millipedes.

Talk about understatement. The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion—evolution's Big Bang—when relatively simple organisms rapidly diversified into the ...

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils, high on a mountainside ... This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new panoply of life-forms ...

curid=77595595 The presence of these fossils deepens our understanding of the Cambrian Explosion, a period characterized by a rapid diversification of life forms about 541 million years ago. The ...

Photo by Suki Lee What sets this fossil apart from others is its age, estimated to be over 500 million years old. This places it in the Cambrian period, a time known for an explosion in the diversity ...