Cambrian Explosion May Have Been Triggered by Primitive Animal Feces — BigGo Finance
Fossilized feces from primitive marine animals have been identified as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion—the dramatic…
Ancient fossil may hold clues to right-handedness
Fossils reveal the earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’ If you happen to…
Earth’s Earliest Animals May Have Thrived Too Easily to Evolve
Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest…
Complex Colonial Life Was Already Thriving during Cambrian Explosion
Tiny colonial animals called bryozoans were long thought to have appeared tens of millions of years after the…
490-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Fills Puzzling Gap in Fossil Record
A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years…
New Research Reveals Secrets of Burgess Shale Trilobites
Arthropod appendages are specialized for diverse roles including feeding, walking, and mating. Fossils from the Cambrian period (539…
Long-Misidentified Fossil is First Known Nonmarine Lobopodian, Paleontologists Say
First published in 1865 as a caterpillar, nearly fifty years before the discovery of Canada’s Burgess Shale, Palaeocampa…