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 ...
Cambrian Period creatures known as sea moths seemed alien because of their additional eye, but a study finds anatomical features more in line with modern animals. An artist’s impression of Mosura ...
Researchers studying ancient rocks from the late Ediacaran period uncovered a fossil evidence that complex animal groups, ...
Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...
Spiders, crabs, and other arthropods evolved from a group of animals that underwent a burst of diversity around 500 million years ago. One fossil site provides an extraordinary glimpse into these ...
An illustration of the taco-shaped Odaraia, which researchers say likely swam upside-down and trapped prey in its spine-covered legs. Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum Around 540 million years ...
New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...