Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

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 ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

Some animals could likely tell the difference between light and dark, but they never knew whether that looming shadow was a friend or foe. Then, at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, life opened ...

Lomankus is not just a fascinating creature in its own right – its very existence challenges the conventional wisdom about the fate of Cambrian life. The Cambrian explosion, which occurred ...