The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

Then came the Cambrian period – nature’s version of a creative explosion. Imagine going from microbial monotony to evolutionary maximalism in what geologists call a “quick minute.” This wasn’t just ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

More than half a billion years ago, Earth’s oceans were teeming with unfamiliar life. New fossil discoveries in Arizona’s Grand Canyon are now offering a rare glimpse into that ancient world—one far ...