Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian ... the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst ... a wormlike creature that swam in middle Cambrian seas. Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found ... research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual ...

The fossils, which are more than 500 million ... The trilobites, from the Cambrian period, have been the subject of research ...

Animals living about 500 million years ago spent time on mudflats that were periodically exposed to the air. The finding suggests that some of the earliest animals were able to survive outside of ...

The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years ... Arthropods were the most diverse animal group in the Cambrian period and the Ordovician period that followed. The 452-million-year ...

the Cambrian Explosion marked a period of rapid diversification of life forms. Fossils from this era, such as those in the Burgess Shale, reveal a wide array of complex organisms, many ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found ... research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual ...

simple animal-like life forms such as those found in the fossils from this period," said Chi Fru. The underwater volcanoes also "restricted and even cut off [the Franceville Basin] of water from ...

the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The discovery, led by Prof. Liu Feng, from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS) of the Chinese Academy of ...