A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Researchers think there are now around 7.7 million animal species living on Earth, with thousands more discovered every year.

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient ...

What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan.

Evolving from multicellular animals with diffuse neural nets such ... This was shortly before and during the Cambrian period. The Cambrian was a period of rapid evolutionary diversification ...

Credit: Linus Folke Jensen/Wikimedia Commons Museums tend to show off the remnants of animal meals in the ... of years—as far back as the Cambrian period—despite a protective mucous coating ...

during an event known as the Cambrian Explosion, when all the major groups of animals were rapidly diversifying". "This rapid period of evolutionary change means that few fossils have been left ...

The University of California San Diego, together with Point Loma Nazarene University, will co-host the 24th annual Kyoto ...

Virginia’s geologic column dates from the Cambrian to the Quaternary periods ... Thanks to the column, we now know that at the start of the Paleozoic period the region where Virginia stands today was ...

Passengers are being urged to check before they travel on the Cambrian line ­from mid-March to early April when Network Rail ...

A scheme for a new Aldi supermarket on university land in Lampeter, which has attracted hundreds of supporters, is recommended to be refused by Ceredigion planners next week despite being supported by ...