The Cambrian period lasted for 56 million years. Although we call it an “explosion” today, in reality, it lasted for an ...

The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.

Microscopic 535-million-year-old cuticle fragments from China's Yanjiahe Formation reveal six distinct forms of molting ...

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life is thought to have increased rapidly ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary era dubbed the Cambrian Explosion. Scientists have differing views on what drove this ...

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to have appeared millions of years later in the Cambrian. The discovery fills a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

A sweeping analysis of Cambrian Series 2 carbonates from South China reveals 15 species of calcified cyanobacteria, two new ...