The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth's surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of geologists. The study has ...

All the major groups of animals appear in the fossil record for the first time around 540-500 million years ago -- an event known as the Cambrian Explosion -- but new research suggests that for most ...

This paper provides an overview of the early Cambrian Guanshan biota with emphasis on new information regarding its sedimentology, taphonomy, and biodiversity. The full extent and significance of this ...

An international research team led by Prof. ZHANG Huaqiao from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has reported the discovery of ...

It may not be obvious, but the creature on the right (Yicaris dianensis) is a big deal. Not in size; at its largest, it appears that Yicaris was only about a millimeter long. Rather, its location ...

(Phys.org) -- The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly all animals on Earth today. Then ...

Components of the newly-described Fezouata fauna. a, Demosponge Pirania auraeum b, Choiid demosponge c, Annelid worm d, Organism showing possible similarities to halkieriids e, Possible armoured ...