A newfound fossil site in China is teeming with bizarre, primitive species that have never before been found any place on Earth. The bounty of creatures includes a spiny, segmented animal known as a ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge-like enigmas of earlier eras suddenly unfolded into a new array of species ...

The origins of complex, multicellular animal life remain somewhat obscure. It appears to have accompanied the rise of oxygen levels over 600 million years ago, but the first animals generally had soft ...

Around 530 million years ago, the planet teemed with life after the Cambrian explosion, when most major animal groups we see today started to appear in the fossil record. Most of this abundance was ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Beginning about 541 million years ago, life on Earth exploded. Over a 53-million-year period, ...

This year’s Relay for Life of Cambrian fundraiser will honor Carol Hofheimer, who has spearheaded the 24-hour event since it was “just a little baby relay” in 2009. Hofheimer has set a fundraising ...

The men who will be editing The Cambrian now came to town recently. They came to help celebrate the new adventures that our former editor Steve Provost is going to have, while we mourned his being ...

The Cambrian “explosion” of life around 540 million years ago is one heck of a story, in which a huge variety of animal body plans first appear in the fossil record. But the harder we look, the more ...

For eight straight years, Cambrian Park residents have turned out en masse for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. This year shouldn’t be any different. The 24-hour event, to be held at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newfound fossil site in China is teeming with bizarre, primitive species that have never before ...