Imagine a world teeming with life, but not as we know it—a planet bursting with creatures so bizarre they seem plucked ...

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

left fossils of the trails they made as they moved through the Precambrian mud. Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in ...

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

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

that the fossils were about 550 million years old—dating to at least 10 million years before a better known evolutionary drama, the famous Cambrian explosion. Scientists until then had believed ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to protect them in seas that were ...

The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the explosion, initiating an arms race between organisms that were increasingly aware of their surroundings. Now, with access to uniquely ...

Others in the paleontological community took the fossils as evidence of a more slow and steady animal evolution than the Cambrian explosion model would suggest.Now, Bengtson says, Matz has found an ...

“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 ...

left fossils of the trails they made as they moved through the Precambrian mud. Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in ...