Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is ... in the fossil record of the Cambrian disappeared without trace. Once the body plans that proved most successful ...

It belonged to a more obscure period, inhabited by cryptic, otherworldly creatures that most people don’t realize ever existed. “This is the first time that life got big,” Laflamme told me ...

"Part of the skull of the Piltdown man, one of the most famous ... Fossil bones absorb fluorine from soil and water, so fossils that have been in the same soil for the same amount of time should ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest known example of an evolutionary arms race in the fossil record ... arms race during the Cambrian period, a time of rapid diversification in early animal ...

The most famous example is Pompeii ... and documented over 300 million years from the beginning of the Cambrian, the number of fossil specimens with intact internal anatomy is minimal and usually ...

for the first time, that predation played a pivotal role in the proliferation of early animal ecosystems and shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian ...

Most fossils are preserved hard parts – bones, teeth and shells – but one of the most famous fossil locales in the world ... giving us a unique perspective on what life was like in the Cambrian seas.

A 555-million-year-old fossil found in South Australia provides crucial evidence for the Precambrian origins of Ecdysozoa, which encompasses insects, crustaceans, and nematodes. The discovery of ...

for the first time, that predation played a pivotal role in the proliferation of early animal ecosystems and shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian ...