Cambrian explosion

A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, US. Image Credit: Poozeum/Wikipedia Around…

In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary…

Tiny colonial animals called bryozoans were long thought to have appeared tens of millions of years after the…

In 2017, researchers found tiny, fossilized filaments that, at the time, appeared to be trace fossils of worms…

Summary: The “Cambrian Explosion”, the period roughly 500 million years ago when animal life rapidly diversified, may not…

A new hypothesis proposes that the Cambrian Explosion — the sudden burst of animal diversity 500 million years…

The economist famously dubbed “Doctor Doom” for predicting the 2008 financial crisis has seemingly morphed into a bullish…

An assemblage of more than 700 Ediacaran fossils from the end of the Ediacaran period indicates that key…

PARIS, Jan 29 — Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion…

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the…

Scientists discovered that animal poop travelled across oceans 540-million-years ago and triggered the evolution of life on earth |