"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

It’s a Paleozoic party! We’re throwing it back 530 million years.When the Earth woke up from an ice age, the Paleozoic Era ...

This discovery has the potential to bridge gaps in our knowledge of animal life during the late Cambrian period ... as trilobites featured three lobes on their exoskeletons. These sea creatures had ...

Geologists studying the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon have uncovered exciting new insights that challenge traditional ...

“Instead, mollusc or mollusc-like animals might be the pioneers of these early excursions onto land which date back to the ...

Suddenly she rose out of the sea onto a rock revealing a sizeable black fishtail. The group ran down to the shore only to find she had vanished. High in the Cambrian Mountains ... has always been part ...

These organisms lived in a shallow sea. Life on Earth arose 3.5 to 4 billion years ... The Earth explodes with life. Some aspects of the Cambrian explosion remain a mystery for scientists. What we do ...