Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration showing Cambrian creatures in a colorful explosion A cursory flip through any high school biology textbook will ...

The fossil of an ancient sea squirt found in a collection at the Utah Museum of Natural History turned out to be the oldest of its kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event ...

More than half a billion years ago, the world's first monster appeared. With bulging eyes and fearsome, grasping claws, Anomalocaris cruised the seas during the geologic time period known as the ...

What New Research Reveals About Cambrian Sociality Think again about the idea of ancient life being a solo fight. New fossil finds show that Cambrian creatures were actually partying like it’s 1999.

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the Grand Canyon, one of the natural world's most iconic sites. Subscribe to ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Long before the Grand Canyon became a hotspot for tourism, it was a hub of ancient animal activity. All kinds of marine animals lived in the area back when it was submerged in the ocean during the ...