Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

A newly published study in GSA Today has upended decades-old theories about how some of the Grand Canyon’s oldest layers — specifically the Tonto Group — were formed. Drawing on fieldwork across over ...

During its analysis, the team also uncovered similarities between the odontodes and features called sensilla, which exist as sensory organs in the shells of modern animals such as crabs and shrimp ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...

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The explosion of animal diversity really kicked off during the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. The first animals that lived on Earth roamed the seas. The oceans were ruled by jawless ...

The Ediacaran Period, spanning from about 635 to 541 million years ago, marked a transformative era in the history of life on Earth. It was during this pivotal time that complex, multicellular ...

The early Cambrian period is a critical time in Earth’s history, marked by the second oxygenation of the atmosphere (known as the Neoproterozoic Oxidation Event) and the rapid evolution of animals, as ...

data to show that continental clay export promoted organic carbon burial and thus atmospheric oxygenation during the Cambrian period.

Learn how the development of vision and the ability to perceive and respond to color may have played a pivotal role in the rapid diversification of life during the Cambrian Period. The Cambrian ...