Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

A scientific discovery has brought a 520-million-year-old larva back to life in ways previously thought impossible. For the ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Cambrian fossils are known from many sites, but usually only from remains of shells and other hard parts; here, owing to some accident of geology, entire organisms were preserved with eyes ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

Talk about understatement. The Burgess fossils tell nothing less than the story of the Cambrian explosion—evolution's Big Bang—when relatively simple organisms rapidly diversified into the ...

Three of its weapons are visible in the fossil shown here: claws, propulsive swimming flaps, and at the base of the claws, eyes on eyestalks. The emergence of vision in the Cambrian helped both ...

It has long been suspected that the sparseness of the pre-Cambrian fossil record reflects these two problems. First, organisms may not have sequestered and secreted much in the way of fossilizable ...

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

Photograph by James L. Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...

Now, with access to uniquely well-preserved Cambrian fossils, Dr Greg Edgecombe and Dr Xiaoya Ma are seeing the evolution of vision through the world's oldest eyes. To understand the eyes of ancient ...