A newfound fossil site in China is teeming with bizarre, primitive species that have never before been found any place on Earth. The bounty of creatures includes a spiny, segmented animal known as a ...

What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon?

The men who will be editing The Cambrian now came to town recently. They came to help celebrate the new adventures that our former editor Steve Provost is going to have, while we mourned his being ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge-like enigmas of earlier eras suddenly unfolded into a new array of species ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Beginning about 541 million years ago, life on Earth exploded. Over a 53-million-year period, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newfound fossil site in China is teeming with bizarre, primitive species that have never before ...