Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

More than half a billion years ago, strange worms and mollusks teemed in the shallow waters that covered where the Grand Canyon is today. That discovery came after Giovanni Mussini, a paleontologist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers uncovered the internal body parts of Cambrian fauna, such as these bits of sternums from crustaceans. - Mussini et al.

The Cambrian is rightly famous for being the period when animal life first exploded into a dizzying diversity of forms, including some body plans that remain with us today. But the first animals in ...

These Cambrian groups were the first social networks, showing that being connected and working together is as old as life itself. And they did it all without worrying about privacy or data. The Fossil ...

Traces of ancient life have been found in rocks deep inside the Earth's mantle, having been sucked down there hundreds of millions of years ago. Scientists discovered traces of carbon—the element on ...

Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously unfamiliar. You have just arrived in the Cambrian Period, a time when life on ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Geologists have uncovered evidence in the oil fields of Oman that explains how Earth could suddenly have changed 540 million years ago to favor the evolution of the single-celled life ...

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.