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 ...

"Even though jellyfish are thought to be one of the earliest animal groups, identifying them in the Cambrian fossil record is incredibly challenging," said Moysiuk. His team's discovery ...

By the start of the Cambrian period 541 million years ago, or soon after, they had almost entirely vanished from the fossil record as we know it. That’s why some scientists have suggested that ...

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

This discovery reconciles a major gap between predictions based on molecular data and the lack of described ecdysozoans prior to the rich Cambrian fossils record and adds to our understanding of ...

protensa that there were already complex, well-developed eyes by the Early Cambrian, around 517 million years ago. Before this time, the fossil record is patchy. 'You don't get large body fossils of ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

“It extends the fossil record of [early land plants] by something like 20 million years. . . . Also, potentially [the fossils] provide a sort of intermediate between the Cambrian record and the later ...

The Cambrian explosion has always been somewhat troubling to ... about three times older than any animal in the fossil record.The discovery by Matz and his team casts doubt on the argument that ...

Fish started becoming more widespread in the fossil record. They were small and had ... The archaic sponge reef-dwellers of the Cambrian gave way to bryozoans—tiny, group-living animals that ...

Dr Garwood explains: ‘The evolutionary events during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition are unparalleled in ... shows these trace fossils pre-date similar animals currently found in the fossil record.

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 ...