Using genetic discoveries based on modern bioluminescent organisms, scientists have estimated coral bioluminescence to have originated in the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. This finding ...

The Ediacaran, an era that ended about 540 million years ago, is considered the prelude to the Cambrian explosion, a period ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of many animal phyla and the diversification of species. During this period, ...

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

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

The Cambrian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, spanning approximately 539–485 million years ago, characterized by a major diversification of multicellular life known as the Cambrian explosion ...

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Spectacular fossils show that a strange beast from the Cambrian had two large compound eyes, each with about 16,000 lenses.

When a group of paleontologists dusted off a group of fossils that had been sitting on the shelf at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada since the 1980s, they uncovered a spooky organism with a ...