All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

"Studies on several tardigrade species have documented that they are the most radiation-tolerant animals on Earth," write the ...

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a ...

Members of Jakob Vinther’s research group study a broad range of subjects. One focus of our research is Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation of animals. We want to understand the evolution of key innovations ...

A study involving the University of Cambridge has used virtual recreations of the earliest animal ecosystems ... prior to a major evolutionary radiation of different forms of animal life, the ...