The Cambrian explosion saw life take on a staggering array of forms around 539 million years ago, a few of which are ...

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 the explosion of life in Earth’s seas ... Anomalocaris could be considered the T. rex of the Cambrian. It was the largest predator to actively search out prey to munch on.

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... helped to protect them in seas that were increasingly filled with predators. With many varieties and sizes—they ranged from a millimeter ...

This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion ...

Reconstruction of Anomalocaris, a formidable predator from the Cambrian Period This dramatic increase in animal diversity, 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The ...

As predators evolved claws to grasp and mouths ... 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.

This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion ...