Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of years of boom-and-bust cycles – first an explosion of life, and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

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

It was while he was studying fossils at the Banff Centre that Nasca developed an interest in the Mistaken Point fossils of ...

With its extremely simple spines, Shishania suggests that chancelloriids developed their ornate spicules from scratch, rather than adapting them from pre-existing skeletal structures. That tells ...

Cambrian explosion may have occurred 15 million years earlier than previously thought Jun 26, 2025 500-million-year-old fossil reveals how starfish got their shape ...

The Cambrian Explosion Connection. Map of Earth as it appeared 520 million years ago during the Cambrian period. Image via Wikimedia, ... expanding our understanding of pre-Cambrian life and its ...

They believe that, as much as generative AI has been a fast mover, "We're witnessing a Cambrian explosion of AI agents." This…might not be so good.

Cambrian explosion is a very complex event and it has multiple factors at play that led to a speciation spurt, but I prefer to look at it as an aftermath of democratization of a technology.

The Cambrian Explosion occurred around the early Cambrian period, approximately 541 million years ago. This period witnessed a rapid increase in the taxonomic diversity, morphological disparity ...