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

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

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Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new hypothesis suggests that the answer isn't found in shells or legs, but in the ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Ancient feeding confirmed: Harvard scientists found quantitative evidence that Cambrian luolishaniids used suspension feeding, filtering plankton from seawater. Modern parallels: Predator–prey size ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.