But it was not as rapid as an explosion: the changes seems to have ... It has long been suspected that the sparseness of the pre-Cambrian fossil record reflects these two problems.

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 ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Something dramatic happened about 500 million years ago called the Cambrian "explosion," during which an incredible diversity ...

The fossils here record an explosion of life around 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, known as the ‘Cambrian explosion’. He explains a speculative theory that the evolution of ...

But it was not as rapid as an explosion: the changes seems to have ... It has long been suspected that the sparseness of the pre-Cambrian fossil record reflects these two problems.