Lather, rinse, repeat. And it all started – at least, for complex life as we think of it today – with the Cambrian explosion. It was during this period, around 530 million years ago, that basically ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

New fossil evidence suggests the Cambrian Explosion, once thought to have occurred 530 million years ago, may have begun 15 million years earlier.

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled ...

Driving along the Stuart Highway from Tennant Creek to Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory, you might be more aware of lone eagles flying high above than what lies in the groundwaters beneath.

University of Missouri researchers find Earth's ancient animal reefs were surprisingly sparse compared to their modern ...

It was while he was studying fossils at the Banff Centre that Nasca developed an interest in the Mistaken Point fossils of ...

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