Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including ...

Learn more about a time period marked by ... of evolution ever known. The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today.

All animal evolution ... kit enabled an unprecedented period of evolutionary experimentation -- and competition. Many forms seen in the fossil record of the Cambrian disappeared without trace.

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

María Herranz (Rey Juan Carlos University), analyzed exceptionally well-preserved fossils from key ... particularly in segmented animals. During the Precambrian-Cambrian transition, changes ...

Then, at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, life opened its eyes ... Three generations of palaeontologists have now studied Chengjiang's fossils, uncovering the physiology of Cambrian animals in ...

Some of the best information about early animals comes from fossils dating back to the Cambrian period, which started around 541 million years ago. During this time, Earth experienced a burst of ...

Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period. The research team ... of ecdysozoan evolution and ...

Misra noticed a fossil-rich slab of mudstone at Newfoundland ... Arthropods were the most diverse animal group in the Cambrian period and the Ordovician period that followed.

Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian ... fossil record in addressing key questions about early animal ...

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary history of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals ... analysed the fossils from key Cambrian deposits. The fossils included Scalidophora, a ...