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 ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

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 ...

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It's long been thought that a monumental surge in oxygen fuelled the Cambrian explosion some 540 million years ago, breathing ...

This coincided with the "Cambrian explosion" (about 541 million years ago), which marked a rapid diversification of life, including the development of advanced sensory systems like vision.

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Cambrian refers to an age in Earth’s history over 500 million years ago. The Explosion part refers to a period of extraordinary evolutionary change over a “short” 20-million-year time span that saw ...

The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion—a key turning point in Earth's history when there was a sudden boom in complex life and the emergence of all the major animal ...

The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian predator, is another highlight. The name means "unlike other shrimp" or "anomalous shrimp", ...

Every one of these eyes begins its story in the Cambrian Period, when the evolution of vision triggered an explosion of diversity of life and changed our world forever.