Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils uncovered in the Grand Canyon show how evolution accelerated in resource-rich waters ...

Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...

Learn how the Grand Canyon used to be home to an ancient evolutionary competition that has since left behind a plethora of ...

Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously ...

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and ...

A mysterious and strange discovery in heart of the Grand Canyon, Arizona has revealed new clues that could reshape our understanding of begining of the life.

After them comes the initial rise of multicellular life, then the first animals, and then the great Cambrian explosion, about 500 million years ago, when evolution seemed to exult in possibilities ...

A New Timeline For The Cambrian Explosion The study, published in the journal Geology, introduces evidence that animals with complex body structures were thriving as early as 545 million years ago ...

Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) recently uncovered a massive new fossil species inside half-a-billion-year-old Cambrian rocks in the Canadian Rockies. The newly-discovered ...

The "exquisitely preserved" specimen supports the idea that these creatures swam before adapting to life on ... analyzed the fossilized brain of Mollisonia symmetrica, an extinct Cambrian-period ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.