Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Now, a breakthrough by Chinese researchers has filled this gap by discovering a top-tier soft-bodied fossil deposit in Hunan province's Huayuan county — dating shortly after the Sinsk event. This ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...