A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it was deemed one of the most surprising scientific discoveries of the 20th ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

I focus on a pivotal interval in Earth’s history, the late Ediacaran–Cambrian (~571 to 485 million years ago), which saw the initial radiation of large and complex multicellular eukaryotes (Ediacara ...

The Chengjiang Biota, on the other hand ... datasets enhance our understanding of the nervous systems of early Cambrian animals and highlight the diversity of preservation modes.