Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst ... a wormlike creature that swam in middle Cambrian seas. Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a ...

517-Million-Year-Old Cambrian Fossils Indicate Earliest Known Example ... the drivers of evolutionary innovation during the Cambrian period. This discovery demonstrates that "predation played ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found ... research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual ...

The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian predator, is another highlight. The name means "unlike other shrimp" or "anomalous shrimp", ...

The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years ... Arthropods were the most diverse animal group in the Cambrian period and the Ordovician period that followed. The 452-million-year ...

Animals living about 500 million years ago spent time on mudflats that were periodically exposed to the air. The finding suggests that some of the earliest animals were able to survive outside of ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...