Learn how a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil from Québec is helping scientists rethink the Furongian gap and the hidden diversity of late Cambrian life.

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

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For more than a century, the Cambrian explosion has served as biology’s big bang: the moment, roughly 538.8 million years ago, when complex animal body plans seemingly burst into the fossil record ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now become extinct. This ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

A stunningly-preserved, half-billion year old fossil of a strange Cambrian creature could shift our understanding of how a sister group to vertebrates evolved, a new study suggests. The fossil, ...

The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer more than scenic views: The mountains have been hiding fossils of an ancient jellyfish species. Researchers analyzed 182 fossils that were found in the middle ...