In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is roughly 554 million years old. The collection, known as the Jiangchuan Biota, ...

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 ...

How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers understand life on other planets. Animals of the Cambrian period went through ...

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition. If, as the Jiangchuan Biota suggest, the Ediacaran gently eased into the Cambrian, then why has there appeared to ...