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

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

“NATURE vibrates with rhythms, climatic and dystrophic, those finding stratigraphic expression ranging In period from the rapid ... the beginning of the Cambrian is far from certain, while ...

A new study has found that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin acted as a refugium, or “life oasis”, for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biodiversity ...

Some have no limbs at all; the sea cucumbers look like big fat worms and the sea lilies look like plants attached to the seafloor. Echinoderms are among the oldest creatures on Earth, with a fossil ...

The strata that are widely exposed cover the Cambrian, Permian ... Longtan formation was closely tied to the enrichment of structured plant tissue during the peat swamp accumulation period. It was ...

The team examined 36 specimens, at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada. They photographed the specimens, both wet and ...