The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...
A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...
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 ...
Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...
A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to have appeared millions of years later in the Cambrian. The discovery fills a ...
A fossil deposit in Yunnan, China, dating back 546–539 million years, shows that diverse, complex animals thrived well before the Cambrian explosion. The Jiangchuan Biota includes early deuterostomes, ...
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