A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled in the pages of Royal Society Open Science, this ancient arthropod sheds ...
HEFEI, 17 July (BelTA - Xinhua) - Chinese researchers have recently discovered a link between oceanic oxygenation and early animal evolution, shedding new light on the Cambrian Explosion. The Cambrian ...
What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon? The usual answer in paleontology is simple: take away oxygen, slow decay, and ...
Geological and Evolutionary Setting of the Biota1 Geological time and the evolution of early life on Earth 2 The evolutionary significance of the Chengjiang biota 3 The discovery and initial study of ...
Animal life seemed to explode into a wide variety of new forms in the Cambrian period. Sun et al. (2002). National Science Review. via Wikipedia under CC By 4.0 Sometime before 520 million years ago, ...