Remarkably preserved relics from southern China — more than half representing species new to science — are transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back approximately 535 million years ago. This discovery offers fresh insights into ...

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 ...

Redevelopment in the Bay Area is hard. The story of the one neighborhood in the South Bay can show us why. The first thing a lot of people notice about Cambrian Park Plaza on the west side of San José ...

A site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years. A newly ...

After 30 years of Pokémon, we’ve come to expect an awful lot of merchandise for the monster-catching franchise. Pikachu and pals have infiltrated homes, schools, and workplaces over three decades, and ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...

The early explosion of complex life may have happened earlier than we thought. The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

The Pokémon Center has recognized everyone’s current levels of Pokopia fever, and filled its new release pages with plushies of Ditto in the form of so very many different Pokémon. We’re seeing the ...