Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this ...

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

This daily feast-and-famine cycle in oxygen availability created an intense physiological challenge for early animals, forcing them to develop adaptations to handle fluctuations in nutrients. For ...

Aberystwyth’s Arad Goch presents 'Sgleinio’r Lleuad', a magical theatre production based on Caryl Lewis's children's book, ...

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

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 ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

Researchers from Aberystwyth University have carried out the first ever environmental DNA (eDNA) assessment of marine ...

Its end caused an alteration of climate that made possible the proliferation of animal life in Cambrian times There is considerable geological evidence for an extensive glaciation some 600 million ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...