Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...

500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. Basically all life lived in the water, which held a lot of animals that looked pretty different from the ones we recognize today. One of ...

During the Cambrian Explosion, all biological “rules” went out the window. The world’s oceans were filled with creatures testing the limits of evolution, caught in different stages of adaptation. Some ...

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 are ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian ...

The explosion of animal life in Earth's oceans half a billion years ago during and after the Cambrian Period is commonly ...

Thanks to being rapidly entombed in volcanic ash – in a “Pompeii-like” process – Cambrian-age trilobites’ anatomy is more discernable than ever, via exquisitely preserved fossils. The fossils ...

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 ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Around 500 million years ago a strange creature with bulging eyes, a rudderlike tail and 30 pairs of spiny limbs extending from its cigar-sized body swam through Earth’s seas. Most of its legs ...

Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures. When you purchase ...