3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era ... were among the most successful organisms ever to populate Earth. These familiar marine arthropods first arose about 545 million ...

A mysterious fossilized creature discovered more than a century ago has finally been decoded, offering stunning insights into ...

It belonged to a more obscure period, inhabited by cryptic ... Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian ... period of evolutionary boom, according to Liu Lu, assistant researcher of the museum's ...

Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual evolution of a "genetic tool kit" of genes that govern ...

Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual evolution of a "genetic tool kit" of genes that govern ...

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 ...

New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.