The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been ...

and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on. Lather, rinse, repeat. And it all started – at least, for complex life as we think of it today – with the Cambrian explosion. It was ...

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying Season 1 Episode 30 | 10m 28s | CC The first era of our current eon, the Paleozoic Era, is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earth ...

Conditions were favorable, and the diversity of multicellular organisms took off during the so-called Cambrian Explosion. Trilobites frolicked. Brachiopods abounded. And then, things went south.

The Cambrian Explosion: For most of the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, evolution produced little beyond bacteria, plankton, and multi-celled algae.

A cursory flip through any high school biology textbook will inevitably surface a mention of the Cambrian explosion, a period about 540 million to 520 million years ago during which many animal ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of many animal phyla and the diversification of species. During this period ...

Even after they got their act together, they never showed a true explosion in species or ecologies.’ Part of the lag in bivalve evolution has been blamed on an extinction event in the Late Cambrian, ...

The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major ...

The other incident happened during a rapid expansion of life on Earth known as the Cambrian explosion, the Chinese-led team concluded.