Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

More than 540 million years ago, in the seafloor of the Ediacaran, something changed forever. Animals began to see. Or rather ...

Fossils from 520-million-year-old rocks in China provide the first clear evidence that bryozoans were part of the Cambrian ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. New research, however, suggests that many of ...

An international research team, including scientists from the University of Hamburg, has identified fossils of bryozoans from the Early Cambrian period for the first time. The exceptionally ...

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 ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, ...

Gaorong Li and colleagues have uncovered a new fossil assemblage in the Jiangchuan Biota in Yunnan, Southwest China that fills a critical gap in our knowledge of the transition between the strange, ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...