Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Around 540 million years ago, Earth’s life underwent a burst of ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. New research, however, suggests that many of ...

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A rare, half-billion-year-old fossil gives us a clue to how a ...

The Cambrian period’s group behavior offers surprisingly relevant lessons for modern social structures. While we’ve developed Slack channels and Zoom meetings, these ancient organisms mastered ...

Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously unfamiliar. You have just arrived in the Cambrian Period, a time when life on ...

Fossils of any type of jellyfish are extremely rare, according to the study. The new study helps underscore the Cambrian period as a critical time for jellyfish evolution. Jellyfish and their ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the Grand Canyon, one of the natural world’s most iconic sites. The rich fossil ...

Learn how a second pair of eyes helped this 518-million-year-old fish evade predators. Spiders have eight eyes, bees have five, and boxed jellyfish have 24 — but these are the exceptions. The vast ...

Timeline: The Cambrian Explosion and Animal Diversity Let’s go back 541 million years. Earth was about to throw the most spectacular evolutionary party in history. For billions of years, life had been ...