Scientists Stunned to Unearth 500-Million-Yr-Old 3D Cambrian Trilobites Fossils in Best Preserved Condition in Volcanic Ash ...

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 ...

The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...

By the start of the Cambrian period 541 million years ago, or soon after, they had almost entirely vanished from the fossil record as we know it. That’s why some scientists have suggested that ...

The Australian fossils are crushed and aren't as complete as the whole-body specimens from ... The evolution of eyes could certainly have triggered an arms race during the Cambrian Period,' says Dr Ma ...

Once assembled, this genetic tool kit enabled an unprecedented period of evolutionary experimentation -- and competition. Many forms seen in the fossil record of the Cambrian disappeared without ...

María Herranz (Rey Juan Carlos University), analyzed exceptionally well-preserved fossils from key Cambrian deposits. These fossils include representatives of the early-evolving Scalidophora ...

Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period ... well-preserved fossils from key Cambrian deposits.

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...