Many major groups of animals that have become a mainstay in modern times first appeared during the Cambrian Explosion.

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Fossil hunting is quite the fun hobby, and if you want to indulge that interest, there are some specific places that you ...

Their interest paid off in the collection of a staggering amount of fossils from the Cambrian, with more than 100 animal species represented.

A new look at 500-million-year-old fossils may shake up our understanding of the Cambrian explosion's evolutionary track.

These Chinese fossil deposits shed light on an explosive period in evolution Tracking the Cambrian Explosion, when the oceans first filled with complex animal life.

In a study published in iScience an international team of researchers describe the first ctenophore fossils ever discovered in the United States. One of the two new species of fossil ctenophores ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

Around 550 million to 540 million years ago, there was a remarkable explosion in the diversity and complexity of animal life on Earth.

The discovery of 480-million-year-old fossils in Morocco supports the likelihood that the Cambrian Explosion’s diverse life continued to evolve.

As in other rich fossil deposits of well-preserved Cambrian life — the Burgess Shale deposits in Canada and the Chengjiang deposits in China's Yunnan Province — the Qingjiang animals had been ...

Fossils of any type of jellyfish are extremely rare, according to the study. The new study helps underscore the Cambrian period as a critical time for jellyfish evolution. Jellyfish and their ...