with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the ...

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 ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

The Cambrian explosion saw life take on a staggering array of forms around 539 million years ago, a few of which are ...

This discovery provides more insight into how animals evolved from single-celled ... known examples of that latter phenomenon is the Cambrian Explosion—the geologic period some 530 million ...

microscopic organisms. But during the Cambrian period, creatures with complex body structures emerged. Scientists who study such things call this the "Cambrian explosion" because it was a period ...

with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the ...