A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

This paper provides an overview of the early Cambrian Guanshan biota with emphasis on new information regarding its sedimentology, taphonomy, and biodiversity. The full extent and significance of ...

When did animals originate? In research published in the journal Palaeontology, we show that this question is answered by Cambrian period fossils of a frond-like sea creature called Stromatoveris ...

New research suggests that soft-bodied organisms called Ediacarans may have been related to an animal of the Cambrian era. ... “Ediacara biota” is a collective name for a large group of around ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Xian-Guang Hou, , Guang-Hui Xu, The Lower Cambrian Crustacean Pectocaris from the Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Jul., 2004), pp. 700-708 Free online reading ...

"The link between Cambrian Stromatoveris and the Ediacaran biota also demonstrates that this group of early animals, called Petalonamae, survived much longer than many had thought and were not ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has discovered a new middle Cambrian (5.04 mya) konservat-lagerstätte in the ...

Linking Ediacaran and Cambrian fossils. By comparing members of the Ediacaran biota to a range of other groups in a computer analysis of evolutionary relationships, we found that Stromatoveris ...

Earth's earliest animals were strange sea creatures "Rather than first appearing in the Cambrian period as had once been thought, animals must have originated and begun to diversify by the ...

Scientists have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved fossils in China from the early Cambrian Period, representing 101 species so far, over half of which have never been described before.

Ediacara biota were forming complex communities tens of millions of years before the Cambrian explosion. A new analysis is shedding light on Earth's first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year ...