with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion ...

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

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was ... Specimen from Florida Keys Marine Life Although these rangeomorphs dominated the deep-sea ecosystem at Mistaken Point for ...

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 ...

The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian predator, is another highlight. The name means "unlike other shrimp" or "anomalous shrimp", which is a reference to the first fossil of the species found, which ...

The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion ... was being laid down, sea levels were rising, ...

Something dramatic happened about 500 million years ago called the Cambrian "explosion ... proliferated and sea levels rose ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...