The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

In this transition, there was a radical change in biodiversity and in the structure of organisms and ecosystems. “The Ediacaran fauna was dominated by complex, multicellular soft-bodied organisms.

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of years of boom-and-bust cycles – first an explosion of life, and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on ...

New fossil evidence suggests the Cambrian Explosion, once thought to have occurred 530 million years ago, may have begun 15 ...

He soon discovered that biologist Bruno Becker Kerber, from the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), in Campinas, was also preparing a review article about Ediacaran fauna, and they decided ...