Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of years of boom-and-bust cycles – first an explosion of life, and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coincidently, animal diversity rapidly increased and genus-level diversity reached the first peak at the onset of the Cambrian Stage 3. Soluble Ba compounds are toxic to marine animals.

At this point in the history of life on Earth, there was a sudden, rapid diversification of animal life. Over a period of around 20 million years all the major animal body plans evolved in a spurt of ...