Rocks found along the Colorado River in Arizona turned out to contain fossilized fragments of soft-bodied creatures, ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been brought into question. New research suggests that this dramatic burst of ...

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

Experts analyzed 170 trace fossils from millions of years before the Cambrian Period and assert that advanced features may have been a reality before the explosion.

Cambrian Explosion Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion is likely exaggerated due to the proliferation of hard-bodied animals that fossilized much more readily than their soft-bodied ...

While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...

Environment Animals These weird marine critters paved the way for the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of species Fossils from Newfoundland sea beds give a clue to how early animal communities formed.

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists ...