Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst ... a wormlike creature that swam in middle Cambrian seas. Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a ...
The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...
An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...
The fossils also showed that the eye stalks were mobile ... The evolution of eyes could certainly have triggered an arms race during the Cambrian Period,' says Dr Ma. 'Eyes give you a huge advantage ...
Despite being the largest and most diverse group of animals on the planet, ecdysozoans have long posed a mystery for scientists due to the absence of clear fossil evidence of their early ancestors, ...
These fossils, dated to approximately 535 million years ago, were found in the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota in southern Shaanxi Province, China. The research, led by Professor Zhang Huaqiao ...