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

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

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

“It shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian Explosion event.” The findings go beyond just fossils with holes. They help explain how life ...

Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

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

We know what fossils look like. For example ... of early arthropods—a group that came into being during the Cambrian Explosion and includes creatures like crabs, lobsters, insects, and millipedes.

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils, high on a mountainside ... This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new panoply of life-forms ...

Talk about understatement. The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion—evolution's Big Bang—when relatively simple organisms rapidly diversified into the ...

curid=77595595 The presence of these fossils deepens our understanding of the Cambrian Explosion, a period characterized by a rapid diversification of life forms about 541 million years ago. The ...

The organisms that survived to start the Cambrian explosion were those that either required no oxygen at all (anoxic) or were somewhere where they didn’t need to compete for oxygen, like burrowed in ...