How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge-like enigmas of earlier eras suddenly unfolded into a new array of species ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Around 530 million years ago, the planet teemed with life after the Cambrian explosion, when most major animal groups we see today started to appear in the fossil record. Most of this abundance was ...

HEFEI, 17 July (BelTA - Xinhua) - Chinese researchers have recently discovered a link between oceanic oxygenation and early animal evolution, shedding new light on the Cambrian Explosion. The Cambrian ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Geologists have uncovered evidence in the oil fields of Oman that explains how Earth could suddenly have changed 540 million years ago to favor the evolution of the single-celled life ...

Animal life seemed to explode into a wide variety of new forms in the Cambrian period. Sun et al. (2002). National Science Review. via Wikipedia under CC By 4.0 Sometime before 520 million years ago, ...