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.

Ancient “gold” bug fossils, infused with pyrite, have been identified as a new species of arthropod by a team of researchers.

A little primer before we begin, Cambrian refers to an age in Earth’s history over 500 million years ago. The Explosion part refers to a period of extraordinary evolutionary change over a “short” ...

This dramatic increase in animal diversity, 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The evolution of the eye is likely to have been a catalyst for the explosion, initiating ...

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 ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...

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