Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

This daily feast-and-famine cycle in oxygen availability created an intense physiological challenge for early animals, ...

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 ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

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 Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion—a key turning point in Earth's history when there was a sudden boom in complex life and the emergence of all the major animal ...

Around 500 million years ago, the world exploded with complex life. Prior to what is known ... Scientists who study such things call this the "Cambrian explosion" because it was a period of ...

The fossils here record an explosion of life around 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, known as the ‘Cambrian explosion’. He explains a speculative theory that the evolution of ...

The exhibition is divided into five sections — The Cambrian Explosion of Life; Invertebrates from the Chengjiang Biota; Vertebrates from the Chengjiang Biota; The Base of the Marine Food Chain ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...