External, ecological factors like these were undoubtedly important in creating the opportunity for the Cambrian explosion to occur. Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research ...

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 ...

is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the explosion, initiating an arms race between organisms that were increasingly aware of their ...

Scientists who study such things call this the "Cambrian explosion" because it was a period of rapid evolution. Major animal groups emerged, competition and predation for food resources increased ...

Then, about 540 million years ago, something else changed ... dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the ...

In 2012, Chengjiang was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it was ...

External, ecological factors like these were undoubtedly important in creating the opportunity for the Cambrian explosion to occur. Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research ...