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

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

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

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

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

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

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

Every one of these eyes begins its story in the Cambrian Period, when the evolution of vision triggered an explosion of diversity of life and changed our world forever. Find out how scientists are ...

The fossils here record an explosion of life around 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, known as the ‘Cambrian explosion’. He explains a speculative theory that the evolution of ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...