How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

What New Research Reveals About Cambrian Sociality Think again about the idea of ancient life being a solo fight. New fossil finds show that Cambrian creatures were actually partying like it’s 1999.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Front Cover; Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion; Epigenetic Mechanismsof the Cambrian Explosion; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Hypotheses on the ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

The Cambrian period wasn’t just a chapter in Earth’s history – it was the plot twist that changed everything. What New Research Reveals About Cambrian Sociality Think again about the idea of ancient ...