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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Photos of Primitive Sea Life] Cambrian's freaks of nature The Cambrian was a bizarre time for life on Earth. During this period, animals evolved that would later give rise to modern-day creatures.

canadensis was one of the largest animals to live 541 million ... temperatures and tectonic changes of the Cambrian. Roughly translating to “weird shrimp from Canada” in Latin, A.