The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian ...

Millions of years ago, continental collisions created enormous mountains in what's now Antarctica. As they eroded, Earth's ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life is thought to have increased rapidly ...

Analysis of zircon crystals reveals that a Himalayan-scale mountain range existed in Antarctica between 650 and 450 million ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to have appeared millions of years later in the Cambrian. The discovery fills a ...

Analyses of detrital zircons from Antarctica show that its tectonics were dominated by Himalayan-style mountains ...

A fossilized Charnia has been found that kept its 3D shape after being engulfed in sediment on the seafloor just before the ...