Let’s go back 541 million years. Earth was about to throw the most spectacular evolutionary party in history. For billions of years, life had been playing it safe with single-celled minimalism. Then ...

Animals of the Cambrian period went through one of the greatest evolutionary surges in history, known as the Cambrian Explosion. Animals of the Cambrian period likely began as worms or worm-like ...

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 ...