Many major groups of animals that have become a mainstay in modern times first appeared during the Cambrian Explosion.

The exhibit, titled “Our Ocean, Close-Up,” features detailed portraits of species found in Hawaiʻi’s waters, painted by 11th ...

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 happened more than 500 million years ago. It was when most of the major animal groups started to appear in the fossil record, a time of rapid expansion of different forms of ...

The Cambrian explosion, in other words, was just one burst in the middle of a protracted fireworks display. “I think it’s a valuable reframing of the story,” says Phoebe Cohen , a ...

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.But beginning about 600 ...

The Cambrian explosion may have happened much earlier. The study quantitatively indicates that organisms with slender body profiles thrived around 545 million years ago.

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.But beginning about 600 ...