Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The Cambrian Explosion was a weird time for the creatures of planet Earth. It was a period of impressive change and growth, ...

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living organisms started developing hard shells and skeletons.

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world to one teeming with animal ...

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...