This creature could have evolved as part of the Cambrian explosion that occurred during the Paleozoic era about 530 million ...

The 500-million-year-old primitive fish without bones or teeth has surprisingly advanced anatomical features. “Based on the ...

The Grand Canyon reveals new insights into Earth's Cambrian Explosion and rapid marine biodiversity evolution.

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which the drama of life’s evolution takes place. They are main characters too.

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...

With the explosion of life in Earth’s seas ... which looked similar to a modern lamprey’s mouth. These strange Cambrian creatures, which quickly evolved all sorts of odd solutions to surviving ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... These toughened-up creatures represented a crucial innovation: hard bodies offering animals both a defense against enemies and a framework ...

Most creatures were blind, so colour was of little use ... This dramatic increase in animal diversity, 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is ...

The events took place a hundred million years before the so-called Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of ... that allowed larger and more complex creatures to evolve." Yale University's Noah ...

Imagine traveling back in time to Earth roughly 500 million years ago, right in the middle of the Cambrian Explosion ... a vast array of the most unusual creatures imaginable.