Three newly reported fossil discoveries — a 554‑million‑year‑old 'lost world' in China, a nearly complete Jurassic reptile near a dinosaur nest in the U.S., and a new Spinosaurus species in Niger — ...

In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

Biomechanical studies on the arachnid-like front "legs" of an extinct apex predator show that the 2-foot (60 centimeter) marine animal Anomalocaris canadensis was likely much weaker than once assumed.

Cambrian lobopodians are important for understanding the evolution of arthropods, but despite their soft-bodied preservation, the organization of the cephalic region remains obscure. Here we describe ...

This is not goodbye. I promise. Just because The Cambrian is shifting to an all-digital format after this week, it doesn’t mean the paper is going away. Neither am I. I’ve been answering two questions ...