The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian predator, is another highlight. The name means "unlike other shrimp" or "anomalous shrimp", which is a reference to the first fossil of the species found, which ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion ...

It’s called the Cambrian Explosion, and it turned the largest environment on the planet from a vast open sea to a packed ecosystem. Some of the new species look similar to their modern-day ...

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 Guardian said: "From the solitary request stop at Dovey Junction, the Cambrian Coast line adheres so closely to the edge ...

And yet they share a common Cambrian chordate ancestor. While the giraffe extends the notion of spinal column to the ultimate extreme, a sea squirt possesses a central notochord only fleetingly ...

A crew of three people and a dog were rescued off the coast of Aberystwyth after the vessel they were sailing in lost all ...

"Sea levels were so high that sediments like ... the Tonto Group of Grand Canyon remains one of the most important Cambrian ...