3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era ... marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion is likely exaggerated due ...

Although these new life-forms spread worldwide ... Arthropods were the most diverse animal group in the Cambrian period and the Ordovician period that followed. The 452-million-year-old limestone ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion ... kit enabled an unprecedented period of evolutionary experimentation -- and competition. Many forms seen in the fossil record of ...

suggesting that the Cambrian period was characterized by dynamic environmental changes that influenced the evolution of early life forms[4]. Lastly, the retrieval of pristine rare earth element ...

As its name implies, this includes all of geological time prior to the Cambrian period ... and various asteroids -- forms from interstellar gas and dust. Prelude to life (4,550-3,900 mya) Planet ...

provides a unique perspective on the evolution of the earliest complex life forms. The fossil, named Youti yuanshi, dates back over 520 million years, during the Cambrian period, a crucial era for ...

Then, at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, life opened its eyes ... suddenly there was a huge variety of colours, body forms and lifestyles. This dramatic increase in animal diversity, 545 to 530 ...

One of the best known examples of that latter phenomenon is the Cambrian Explosion—the geologic period some 530 ... the earliest (and strangest) forms of animal life to date at the site.

The fossils here record an explosion of life around 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, known as the ... triggered the evolution of more complex forms of life.