Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

Front Cover; Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion; Epigenetic Mechanismsof the Cambrian Explosion; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Hypotheses on the ...

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 ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea. Scientists recovered dozens of fist-size Cambrian rocks estimated between 502 million ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new hypothesis suggests that the answer isn't found in shells or legs, but in the ...

The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been brought into question. New research suggests that this dramatic burst of ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...