Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

Learn more about a time period marked by ... of evolution ever known. The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today.

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

The Cambrian period is famous for what scientists call ... that predation played a pivotal role in the proliferation of early animal ecosystems,” Bicknell said. “It shows the rapid speed ...

This discovery pushed back the timeline for when animals first appeared on Earth. The Cambrian Explosion, which occurred around 541 million years ago, marked a significant period in Earth’s history.

In a new study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Harvard researchers in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new ...

Helmetia expansa belongs to a rare group of early arthropods called concilitergans ... and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Scientists have confirmed that Dickinsonia, a 558-million-year-old fossil, is the world’s oldest known animal, pushing back ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.