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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are five of Earth’s most terrifying extinct animals that ruled long before humans walked the Earth. Sign In. TOI. Go to TOI. Etimes. home. lifestyle. relationship. trending. Health+. style.

The Cambrian Mountains Society was set up by citizens in 2005 to protect the “unique and vulnerable landscape” spanning the Dyfi Valley to Llandovery, now with over 300 members. One of their biggest ...

3. Squirrel Monkey. Monkeys are easily some of the most common animals in the Amazon, with nine different species living there. However, one that you are most likely to encounter is the squirrel ...