What New Research Reveals About Cambrian Sociality Think again about the idea of ancient life being a solo fight. New fossil finds show that Cambrian creatures were actually partying like it’s 1999.

A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has unveiled exquisitely preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unprecedented glimpse into early life more than 500 ...

Cambrian paleontology and geology represent a critical juncture in Earth’s history, marked by the rapid diversification of animal life and profound shifts in marine geochemistry. The early Cambrian ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, defied conventions by combining two different mineral-building methods.

Hallucigenia belongs to a group of worm-like marine creatures called lobopodians that lived during the Cambrian Period, roughly 500 million years ago. H. sparsa is one of the best-known Cambrian ...

This video compresses 4 billion years of Earth’s evolution into just one minute, highlighting key milestones like photosynthesis, the Cambrian explosion, and the rise of mammals. It traces the path ...

The curious minds at What If imagine what life would be like if you lived during the Cambrian period, revealing primitive ...