The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been ...

Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's ancient life, revealing the origins and evolution of complex organisms. Discoveries like ...

And yet, that’s precisely what a new analysis has concluded. “Our study indicates that organisms with slender body profiles ...

New fossil evidence suggests the Cambrian Explosion, once thought to have occurred 530 million years ago, may have begun 15 ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of many animal phyla and the diversification of species. During this period ...

A new study sheds light on this ancient struggle, revealing the earliest known case of what scientists call an “evolutionary arms race.” This study, published in the journal Current ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it was deemed one of the most surprising scientific discoveries of the 20th ...

One of the best known examples of that latter phenomenon is the Cambrian Explosion—the geologic period some 530 million years ago when Earth saw an immense uptick in the complexity of life in ...

Scientists say they have new evidence that complex life on Earth began much earlier than previously believed.

The Cambrian explosion is commonly referred to as evolution's Big Bang. The Cambrian Period began some 543 million years ago. Astonishing fossil records reveal the first appearance of various marine ...