3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era ... marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion is likely exaggerated due ...

Although these new life-forms spread worldwide ... Arthropods were the most diverse animal group in the Cambrian period and the Ordovician period that followed. The 452-million-year-old limestone ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion ... kit enabled an unprecedented period of evolutionary experimentation -- and competition. Many forms seen in the fossil record of ...

As its name implies, this includes all of geological time prior to the Cambrian period ... and various asteroids -- forms from interstellar gas and dust. Prelude to life (4,550-3,900 mya) Planet ...

"We see the same process as in the Cambrian period, 635 million years ago ... simple animal-like life forms such as those found in the fossils from this period,” he said.

These fossils, dated to approximately 535 million years ago, were found in the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota ... This suggests that the juvenile and adult forms may vary due to metamorphosis ...

Then, at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, life opened its eyes ... suddenly there was a huge variety of colours, body forms and lifestyles. This dramatic increase in animal diversity, 545 to 530 ...

The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during ...

Life on Earth. Where did it come from ... appear to have had circumstances similar to when life bloomed in the Cambrian period, 635 million years ago. It very well could have stimulated the ...

Tiny balls of mineral are opening a new window into the history of life on Earth ... embryos of animals that lived during the early Cambrian period, some 535 million years ago.

The fossils here record an explosion of life around 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, known as the ... triggered the evolution of more complex forms of life.

In the Cambrian many complex life forms emerged, most went extinct later ... uses their thermochronology modeling approach to study a period that extends well beyond a billion years.