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

“The Ediacaran fauna was dominated by complex, multicellular soft-bodied organisms,” explained Miguez Salas ... that could potentially have been the first sparks of the Cambrian explosion. It’s a neat ...

Biologists have estimated, for the first time, the rates of evolution during the "Cambrian explosion" when most modern animal groups appeared between 540 and 520 million years ago.

Scientists have proposed everything from genetic changes to a starburst in the Milky Way to explain the explosion in diversity. "There are well over 30 hypotheses out there for the Cambrian ...

The team found that the emergence of many sea creatures during the Cambrian explosion could be explained by an accelerated — but not unrealistic — evolution by way of natural selection, or the ...

DURING the Cambrian period, which began 541m years ago, animal life took a remarkable leap forward. ... Several explanations have been put forward to explain the Cambrian explosion of animal life.

Meet your flatmate. A living arthropod (centipede Cormocephalus) crawls over two 515-million-year-old relatives (Estaingia trilobites) which lived during the Cambrian explosion. All are found on ...

There has been no lack of theories to explain the phenomenon of the Cambrian explosion. Some propose that the Cambrian explosion was propelled by a surge in oxygen levels, while others argue for a ...

The Cambrian explosion occurred around 540 million years ago and brought with it a rapid burst of evolution, which resulted in greater diversification of life on the planet. Before this, life ...

The Grand Canyon. A fresh analysis of rocks exposed in the side of the canyon is changing an 80-year-old textbook model and our understanding of the Cambrian Explosion.

Global warming drove 'explosion' of life 500 ... that some of them have exceptionally well-preserved shell chemistry which has not changed since they grew on the Cambrian sea floor,” explained ...

The rapid diversification of animals over 500 million years ago – often referred to as the Cambrian Explosion – saw the appearance of the first large swimming predators in our oceans ...