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 ...

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...

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

With the explosion of life in Earth’s seas ... which looked similar to a modern lamprey’s mouth. These strange Cambrian creatures, which quickly evolved all sorts of odd solutions to surviving ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... These toughened-up creatures represented a crucial innovation: hard bodies offering animals both a defense against enemies and a framework ...

Wormy creatures had long been wriggling along ... factor that brought oblivion to the Ediacarans and triggered the Cambrian explosion—there also were changes in ocean chemistry that allowed ...

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

Most creatures were blind, so colour was of little use ... 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the ...

They include Opabinia, a five-eyed creature with a grasping proboscis ... This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new panoply of life-forms ...

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...