Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

A predator of the Cambrian was the giant, shrimplike Anomalocaris, which trapped its prey in fearsome mouthparts lined with hooks. Even stranger was the five-eyed Opabinia, which caught its ...

As a result, the Cambrian seas were the birthplace of the first mouths, eyes and legs. Some of the odd critters living in these ancient seas included Opabinia, which had five eyes and an elephant ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

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 ...

They include Opabinia, a five-eyed creature with a grasping ... This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new panoply of life-forms—creeping ...

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 ...