and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on. Lather, rinse, repeat. And it all started – at least, for complex life as we think of it today – with the Cambrian explosion. It was ...

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The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

Some perspective: The Ediacaran Period spanned roughly 96 million years, bookended on either side by the end of Cryogenian Period -- 635 million years ago -- and the beginning of the Cambrian ...

The Sinsk event occurred during the Cambrian period (540 million to 485 million years ago), which saw a huge diversification of life on Earth known as the Cambrian explosion.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago Work shows a major loss of diversity during the Ediacaran Period, which lasted from 635 million ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most ...