While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...

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And critically, these innovations were all present well before the Cambrian, putting in place the raw ingredients for the explosion of forms that would eventually come about. Nature , 2019. DOI ...

Cambrian animals would have needed more oxygen than early sponges, concedes Canfield. “But you don't need an increase in oxygen across the Ediacaran/Cambrian boundary,” he says; ...

New fossils of a Cambrian animal called Stromatoveris showed that it’s related to an Ediacaran group called the petalonamids, named for their petal-like fronds.

An event as simple as the world's first bite may have sparked an ancient "explosion" of life 500 million years ago that led to the rise of the broad groups of animals that are still alive today. A ...

Cambrian Explosion: Major Fossil Study Challenges Theories of Animal Evolution 540 Million Years Ago Published May 22, 2018 at 8:17 AM EDT Updated May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM EDT ...

DURING the Cambrian period, which began 541m years ago, animal life took a remarkable leap forward. The first creatures believed by most (though not all) palaeontologists to be multicellular ...

The first signs of complex animal life begin in the Ediacaran Period, which started more than 600 million years ago. But it's difficult to understand how those organisms relate to the life we see ...