This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion ...

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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 ...

Dozens of animals, some on land but many in the ocean, can produce light within their bodies through chemical reactions. Scientists are still trying to understand when and why this trait developed.

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It’s the Cambrian explosion of robotic-assisted surgery systems. With the expiry of da Vinci’s patents in 2019, companies around the world are racing to develop affordable and usable systems ...

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This expansion might have contributed to the subsequent diversification of body plans in the Cambrian explosion. In the evolution of metazoans, sponges diverged first, followed by cnidarians ...

It’s a Paleozoic party! We’re throwing it back 530 million years.When the Earth woke up from an ice age, the Paleozoic Era ...