Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

were among the most successful organisms ever to populate Earth. These familiar marine arthropods first arose about 545 million years ago in the early Cambrian and thrived throughout the world's ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

Working to provide real-time, resilient, multi-orbit, self-healing mesh networking solutions that expand the Internet we enjoy on Earth, Cambrian Works is overcoming the communications constraints ...

The Precambrian encompasses 86 percent of the history of Earth. As its name implies, this includes all of geological time prior to the Cambrian period. Hadean Era (4,550-3,850 mya) The Precambrian ...

Museum palaeontologists Dr Greg Edgecombe and Dr Xiaoya Ma are using extraordinary fossils to reveal exquisite details about the earliest eyes on Earth. More than 541 million ... Then, at the ...