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 ...

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 ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor. True to its name, this prokaryote-like organism represents the ancestor of ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The events on tap include guided facility tours of Cambrian R&D and the Centre for Smart Mining, a research showcase in the ...

Cambrian College is expected to open Friday after problems with power closed its Barrydowne Road campus on Thursday.