Even paleontologists sometimes wonder: Why do Cambrian creatures look so strange? All of these odd-looking animals evolved at a special time in Earth's history, said Javier Ortega-Hernández ...

But the Cambrian fossil record is also rife with forms only distantly related to animals on Earth today, some of which were so weird that the sight of a reconstruction of the creatures made ...

The strange life of the Cambrian was first ... As a result, no one knew how long the animals of the Cambrian survived. The Moroccan trove is the first to show soft-bodied Cambrian beasties ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

This bonanza is known as the Cambrian explosion. Based on the fossil record, animal life appeared to be ... Ediacaran organisms is they have this strange fractal branching—they had branches ...

Animal fossils from before that time are typically ... We know of the existence of many strange Cambrian creatures because they have been recovered from sites of exceptional preservation which ...

"It is exceptionally rare, but it shows us just how strange and varied the shapes of early animals could be." The find also reveals the ecology of the Cambrian seas, Hearing added. "It tells us ...

More than half a billion years ago, a strange, worm-like creature ... which suggests that animal life began millions of years before the Cambrian explosion. Yilingia spiciformis fits into that ...

A stunningly-preserved, half-billion year old fossil of a strange Cambrian creature could shift ... filling an important gap in the animal tree of life. The newly discovered fossil offers the ...

an animal that resembled modern elephants but with a unique feature—its tusks curved downwards instead of upwards. These strange tusks were likely used for stripping bark or digging roots.