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 ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts—elaborate and sizable beings (we call them ...

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

20 Million Years After The Cambrian Explosion, A Poisonous Gas Wave Wiped Out Nearly Half Of All Sea Life On Earth, According To Recent Research Story by Emily Chan • 11mo ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

offering long-sought evidence of Ecdysozoans before the Cambrian explosion. The find underscores the evolutionary complexity of Precambrian life, a time when early ecosystems were dominated by ...

Described today in the journal Current Biology, the study provides the first demonstrable record of an evolutionary arms race in the Cambrian. “Predator-prey interactions are often touted as a ...

Then, at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, life opened its eyes. In the 15 million years that followed the evolution of vision, most of the major animal groups we know today appeared. After ...

This “fire geode” is a remnant of a 1994 conflagration that destroyed the home of Kathe Tanner, longtime reporter for The Tribune and The Cambrian ... to blindside my life again.

"The Great Unconformity sets the stage for the Cambrian explosion of life, which has always been puzzling since it is so abrupt in the fossil record—geological and evolutionary processes are ...