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

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

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 ...

Ediacaran organisms appear after a series of ice ages that covered the Earth. Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran ...

The Cambrian explosion may have happened much earlier. The study quantitatively indicates that organisms with slender body profiles thrived around 545 million years ago.

Quantitative decoding of Ediacaran locomotory trace fossil morphologies: Evidence for the emergence of slender anterior-posterior body profiles. Geology , 2025; DOI: 10.1130/G53332.1 Cite This Page : ...