Early Cambrian fossils reveal how a small ... a tiny animal distantly related to modern brachiopod bivalves. Thousands of L. fasciculata shells have been found in a South Australian fossil ...

The most well-known groups – bivalves, gastropods ... According to the authors, the phylogeny supports a Cambrian origin for Mollusca, followed by a rapid divergence into the major clades ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

This is an illustration of marine fossils that have existed since the Cambrian. Represented taxa include brachiopods, trilobites, ammonites, bivalves, and decapods. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

Bivalves have been around for a very long time. They turn up in the fossil record in the early Cambrian, more than 500 million years ago, but their roots go even deeper than that. Since evolving, ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

A study published in Science on the evolution of molluscan forms and genomes offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex and diverse biology of mollusks, | Plants And Animals ...