A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has discovered a new middle Cambrian (5.04 mya) konservat-lagerstätte in the ...

Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the ...

A diverse and well-preserved fauna of shelly fossils from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations of North-East Greenland contains more than 90 species. The fauna is the most ...

Much of what we know regarding how life--as we know it--came into existence is through the recovery of fossils from various sites in the word. The Chengjiang lagerstatte in Yunnan Province, China, is ...

The upper part of Bed 3 of the type of section of the Gorge Formation (Upper Cambrian) has yielded 15 kinds of trilobites, of which all but one are previously described species. Four unnamed pygidia ...

Components of the newly-described Fezouata fauna. a, Demosponge Pirania auraeum b, Choiid demosponge c, Annelid worm d, Organism showing possible similarities to halkieriids e, Possible armoured ...

IN THE 1800s, when early geologists started to work out the order in which things had happened in Earth’s history, they quickly assembled a rough chronology. Though their successors had to wait until ...

This article is an answer to a comment about the Cambrian Explosion, made by Tyronehster on October 2, 2012 at 10:30, in his article called Let's Talk Origins, placed on October 2, 2012, 08:11 As ...