“The Ediacaran fauna was dominated by complex, multicellular soft-bodied organisms,” explained Miguez Salas ... that could potentially have been the first sparks of the Cambrian explosion. It’s a neat ...

Andrew Parker believes he has found the solution to the mystery of the Cambrian Explosion when most of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record and animal phyla increased from ...

Cambrian Explosion: Major Fossil Study Challenges Theories of Animal Evolution 540 Million Years Ago Published May 22, 2018 at 8:17 AM EDT Updated May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM EDT ...

It was a might hot day down there by th’ crick, and the fish wasn’ in no mood fer bitin’. The flies was buzzin’ ‘roun’, makin’ it real peaceful, like, when Buford woke Abner f’um his nap.

DURING the Cambrian period, which began 541m years ago, animal life took a remarkable leap forward. ... Several explanations have been put forward to explain the Cambrian explosion of animal life.

Scientists have proposed everything from genetic changes to a starburst in the Milky Way to explain the explosion in diversity. "There are well over 30 hypotheses out there for the Cambrian ...

Biologists have estimated, for the first time, the rates of evolution during the "Cambrian explosion" when most modern animal groups appeared between 540 and 520 million years ago.

The team found that the emergence of many sea creatures during the Cambrian explosion could be explained by an accelerated — but not unrealistic — evolution by way of natural selection, or the ...

Meet your flatmate. A living arthropod (centipede Cormocephalus) crawls over two 515-million-year-old relatives (Estaingia trilobites) which lived during the Cambrian explosion. All are found on ...