Scientists Stunned to Unearth 500-Million-Yr-Old 3D Cambrian Trilobites Fossils in Best Preserved Condition in Volcanic Ash ...

were among the most successful organisms ever to populate Earth. These familiar marine arthropods first arose about 545 million years ago in the early Cambrian and thrived throughout the world's ...

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

The Precambrian encompasses 86 percent of the history of Earth. As its name implies, this includes all of geological time prior to the Cambrian period. Hadean Era (4,550-3,850 mya) The Precambrian ...

"This was a fascinating time in Earth's history," said Kalin McDannell, a postdoctoral researcher and the lead author of the paper. "The Great Unconformity sets the stage for the Cambrian ...

Their findings provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period. An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the ...