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 Cambrian ...
New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...
For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.
A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...
Around half a billion years ago, life on Earth went through a rapid transformation, diversifying into almost all of the major animal groups we see today. How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred ...
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A 500-million-year-old fossil found in Utah turns out to be the oldest known tunicate — the creature that links invertebrates to every animal with a spine
In 2019, two Harvard researchers visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah pulled open a drawer of confiscated Cambrian ...
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 ...
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