Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

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Using genetic discoveries based on modern bioluminescent organisms, scientists have estimated coral bioluminescence to have originated in the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. This finding ...

Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period. Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea ...

You've traveled 500 million years into the past to experience some of the most dangerous seas and alien organisms ever to ...