Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

High in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, the animals of an ancient ecosystem can be seen battling for life. The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on ...

Cambrian sediments found in Canada, Greenland, and China have yielded rarely fossilized soft-bodied creatures such as marine worms buried during undersea mud avalanches. Representing the oldest ...

Experts disagree about just when the intricate patterns of burrowing creatures first appeared, but by any judgment those traces signaled a big change from the Ediacaran to the Cambrian.

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ...

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

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Cambrian Dawn Journey to a time long forgotten... In this thrilling underwater world of strange and beautiful creatures, only the strongest species will ...

A bizarre fossil of a Cambrian creature that looked like an “alien fish taco” reveals how a single group with jaws came to account for around 90 percent of all animal species on Earth ...

The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian predator ... Algae; and Mysterious Creatures from the Ancient Oceans. Running through May 11, the exhibition has an admission fee of 20 yuan ($2.75) per person.

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ...