This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion ...

The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition ... Scientists debate the drivers of this evolutionary explosion, but many point to the rise of predation and its accompanying arms races. Predators, such ...

Before Ediacaran forms flourished on the planet ... factor that brought oblivion to the Ediacarans and triggered the Cambrian explosion—there also were changes in ocean chemistry that allowed ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

into the Ediacaran. "This is the cast-iron evidence of modern-looking organisms in the Pre-Cambrian. That means the fuse for the Cambrian explosion was probably quite long," said Dr Phil Wilby ...

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a geologic timespan that predates the Cambrian explosion. An international ...

The Ediacaran seafloor shows a time before ... supporting the theory that this lineage predates the Cambrian explosion. Ecdysozoans are so diverse and occupy so many niches, that to actually ...

It's spectacular because of its age. It's Pre-Cambrian - it's of an age that we now call Ediacaran. "But what's particularly noteworthy about it is that it's combining a trace - the movement of an ...

As an evolution aficionado, the current situation reminds me of Cambrian explosion. Cambrian explosion is a very complex event and it has multiple factors at play that led to a speciation spurt ...

Lead researcher Ian Hughes, a Ph.D. candidate from Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, expressed the excitement surrounding the find, noting, "Ecdysozoans were prevalent in ...