Our blue planet is home to countless creatures, some well-known, others still shrouded in mystery. From tiny tardigrades to massive blue whales, the diversity of life today reflects billions of years ...

Then came the Cambrian period – nature’s version of a creative explosion. Imagine going from microbial monotony to evolutionary maximalism in what geologists call a “quick minute.” This wasn’t just ...

Chemical fossils in 541-million-year-old rocks point to demosponges as Earth’s earliest animals, pushing origins before the ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...