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Many major groups of animals that have become a mainstay in modern times first appeared during the Cambrian Explosion.
The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...
Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.
The authors also call Cambrian-age deposits in the Qingjiang area of China "widespread," and initial samplings have suggested that similar fossils can be found at a number of other locations in ...
The discovery of 480-million-year-old fossils in Morocco supports the likelihood that the Cambrian Explosion’s diverse life continued to evolve.
Cambrian Explosion: Major Fossil Study Challenges Theories of Animal Evolution 540 Million Years Ago. Published May 22, 2018 at 8:17 AM EDT Updated May 22, 2018 at 11:52 AM EDT.
A new look at 500-million-year-old fossils may shake up our understanding of the Cambrian explosion's evolutionary track.
Fossil hunting is quite the fun hobby, and if you want to indulge that interest, there are some specific places that you ...
The speed of transition seemed so shockingly abrupt that it amazed and worried even Charles Darwin. It has long been called the “Cambrian explosion." We now know it was not quite so abrupt.
Analysis of trace fossils suggests that key evolutionary developments associated with the Cambrian explosion, such as directional locomotion and complex body structures, emerged around 545 million ...
In a study published in iScience an international team of researchers describe the first ctenophore fossils ever discovered in the United States. One of the two new species of fossil ctenophores ...
Cambrian fossils record the major divergence of animal groups originating over 500 million years ago. This period saw the evolution of innumerable innovations, such as eyes, ...