For more than a century, the Cambrian explosion has served as biology’s big bang: the moment, roughly 538.8 million years ago ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...

In 2019, two Harvard researchers visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah pulled open a drawer of confiscated Cambrian ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

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Life on Earth may have begun billions of years ago with a quiet, single-celled whimper, but it really arrived with a bang about 540 million years ago. Within a relatively short period of time, life ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

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 ...

May 6 (UPI) --During the Cambrian explosion, thousands of new species appeared during a relatively short amount of time. The earliest forms of many modern species first emerged during the Cambrian ...

The explosion of animal life in Earth's oceans half a billion years ago during and after the Cambrian Period is commonly attributed to a substantial and sustained rise of free oxygen (O2) in seawater.