Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

Researchers think there are now around 7.7 million animal species living on Earth, with thousands more discovered every year.

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...

The fossils found date back to a geological and evolutionary period known as the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. This was when the Ediacaran Period, which spanned 94 million years from the end of the ...

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...

provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period. The research team, comprising Dr. Deng Wang (Northwest University), Dr. Jean Vannier (Université de ...