As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...

With the explosion of life in Earth’s seas ... which looked similar to a modern lamprey’s mouth. These strange Cambrian creatures, which quickly evolved all sorts of odd solutions to surviving ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of ... These toughened-up creatures represented a crucial innovation: hard bodies offering animals both a defense against enemies and a framework ...

About half a billion years ago, early animals in the oceans and seas struggled to survive in a world that experienced ...

During the era of the Cambrian Explosion, some animals evolved to be able to create their own exoskeleton, a process known as ...

Wormy creatures had long been wriggling along ... factor that brought oblivion to the Ediacarans and triggered the Cambrian explosion—there also were changes in ocean chemistry that allowed ...

Most creatures were blind, so colour was of little use ... 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the ...

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

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary ... Discovered in 1999, the creature is only about 3 centimeters in length but has primitive features ...

known as the ‘Cambrian explosion’. He explains a speculative theory that the evolution of creatures with eyes, such as trilobites, triggered the evolution of more complex forms of life.

As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly ... This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in ...