with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the ...

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

Early Cambrian fossils reveal how a small, shelled animal ... the tree of life. Others look so much like the product of a bad ...

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 ...

the earliest known chordate—the group of animals that would later evolve into vertebrates. This was the full flowering of the “Cambrian explosion,” the sudden appearance of a vast new ...

This timing coincides with the Cambrian explosion, a period of rapid evolution and diversification of life on Earth, including the emergence of many major animal ... across the tree of life ...

with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the ...