Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this ...

The current consensus, therefore, leans toward classifying Dickinsonia as an animal. More specifically, it may have been an ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian ...

The Cambrian period is famous for what scientists call the Cambrian Explosion—a time when animal life rapidly grew in variety and complexity. In just a few million years, many of the major ...

What this teaches us is that the evolutionary root of consciousness—even ours—is about being together in community. “Love and ...

“It shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian Explosion event ... weapons are built into the bodies of animals. And instead of engineers, evolution ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.