Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is ... in the fossil record of the Cambrian disappeared without trace. Once the body plans that proved most successful ...

But Lucy is just one of many famous hominin fossils. From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit," here are some of the most iconic fossils that have transformed what we know about human evolution and ...

for the first time, that predation played a pivotal role in the proliferation of early animal ecosystems and shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian ...

Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

Imagine traveling back in time ... Cambrian Explosion. It would be like visiting an alien planet! The Blue Planet was in its "insecty invertebrate" phase, producing a vast array of the most ...

This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago in the ocean that once covered the region of South Australia.

It belonged to a more obscure period, inhabited by cryptic, otherworldly creatures that most people don’t realize ever existed. “This is the first time that life got big,” Laflamme told me ...

A 555-million-year-old fossil found in South Australia provides crucial evidence for the Precambrian origins of Ecdysozoa, which encompasses insects, crustaceans, and nematodes. The discovery of ...

A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a vast superphylum that includes molting animals ...

The discovery of Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old fossil in South Australia, confirms Precambrian origins for ...

An international research team has made a notable discovery of fossil embryos belonging ... been reported from the early Cambrian to the Early Ordovician periods, most examples are limited to ...