Museum palaeontologists Dr Greg Edgecombe and Dr Xiaoya Ma are using extraordinary fossils to reveal exquisite details about the earliest eyes on Earth. More than 541 million years ago, during the ...

This animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were ... years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and ...

It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion ... had a set of compound eyes, like a dragonfly, allowing it to see in much greater detail than any of the scuttling creatures it fed upon.

During the Cambrian Explosion, all biological “rules” went out the window. The world’s oceans were filled with creatures testing ... its large head and eyes and a tail that resembles a ...