External, ecological factors like these were undoubtedly important in creating the opportunity for the Cambrian explosion to occur. Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research ...

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 ...

About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian ...

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

is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the explosion, initiating an arms race between organisms that were increasingly aware of their ...

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 ...

External, ecological factors like these were undoubtedly important in creating the opportunity for the Cambrian explosion to occur. Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research ...