The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the ...

The Precambrian eon is vast, almost unimaginably so. In fact, before some fossil discoveries were made late in the 20th century, it was considered unknowable -- evolution's dark ages. The Precambrian ...

Paleontologists now know that the Precambrian actually did swarm with living creatures, and it was swarming more than 3.85 billion years ago. The earliest evidence of life comes from the southwestern ...

The casual observer generally rejects the possibility of hydrocarbons occurring in the Precambrian basement rocks of Ohio and surrounding region. However, it appears that a major paradigm shift must ...