New Fossils Before and After the Cambrian, What Do They Show?

To understand a fossil bed, it's important to know what came before and after it (or above and below it, to be more precise). The explosive burst of new body plans called the Cambrian explosion is undisputed among paleontologists, even those who disagree with the ID understanding Stephen Meyer argues for in Darwin's Doubt. Recently, some new fossils before and after the explosion came to light. Let's see what kind of context they provide -- and evaluate the evolutionary spin given in the rep...