How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

Then came the Cambrian period – nature’s version of a creative explosion. Imagine going from microbial monotony to evolutionary maximalism in what geologists call a “quick minute.” This wasn’t just ...

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

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian explosion ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China, the Jiangchuan Biota, contains about 700 exceptionally preserved specimens dating back 539–554 million years. The find includes early bilaterians and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of the Cambrian Period marine arthropod Fuxianhuiid, with gut preserved, discovered in Hunan province in southern China ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...

Cambrian Period creatures known as sea moths seemed alien because of their additional eye, but a study finds anatomical features more in line with modern animals. An artist’s impression of Mosura ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

The fossil of the Cambrian Period marine arthropod Fuxianhuiid, with gut preserved, discovered in Hunan province in southern China and dating to around 512 million years, is seen in this photograph ...