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 ...

What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan.

as well as into the dynamics of evolution in the deep ocean. We are trying to find the very oldest hydrothermal vent animals by studying ancient rocks dating back to the Cambrian period, over 500 ...

Learn more about a time period marked by ... of evolution ever known. The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today.

All animal evolution ... the opportunity for the Cambrian explosion to occur. Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion ...

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

Many sea-bottom areas at that time were coated ... The race is onPhylum Arthropoda: The astonishing proliferation of new animal species in the Cambrian period was driven in part by a radical ...

As underwater chimneys called deep-sea vents release dissolved ... subsequently evolved into new forms of animals that continued into the Cambrian period, others say that they were wiped out ...

Their findings provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period. An international ... evolved in ecdysozoan animals, a group that includes insects ...

Then, at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, life opened its eyes ... The distinctive stalked eyes of this small, sea-dwelling animal had been well studied, but this time the team noticed something ...