Five hundred million years ago, a larva this small swam in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, its tiny form supporting a ...

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Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian ...

The most recent 12 percent of time on Earth is a striking anomaly when compared with the great bulk of our planet’s evolution. After 3 billion years or more of Earth as a microbial world, cells found ...

May 6 (UPI) --During the Cambrian explosion, thousands of new species appeared during a relatively short amount of time. The earliest forms of many modern species first emerged during the Cambrian ...

Researchers have found the oldest clue yet of animal life, dating back at least 100 million years before the famous Cambrian explosion of animal fossils. Researchers at the University of California, ...

You've traveled 500 million years into the past to experience some of the most dangerous seas and alien organisms ever to exist on Earth. Welcome to the Cambrian Period.

When did animals originate? Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin may have speculated about the forms that early animals took, but our research published in the journal Palaeontology answers the animal ...

Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill received funding from the John Templeton Foundation and the UK Palaeontological Association. When did animals originate? Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin may have speculated ...

The first signs of complex animal life begin in the Ediacaran Period, which started more than 600 million years ago. But it’s difficult to understand how those organisms relate to the life we see ...