The Cambrian Explosion: A Burst of Life and Innovation ... For many, it represents the wild creativity of evolution and the mystery of Earth’s distant past. Children and adults alike are ...

"The mystery started to unfurl once we found ... That tells something profound about how complex body plans evolved during the Cambrian explosion—the evolutionary burst that gave rise to all ...

The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion—a key turning point in Earth's history when there was a sudden boom in complex life and the emergence of all the major animal ...

Then, suddenly, everything changed. The long snooze gave way to the Cambrian explosion, the most rapid, creative period of evolution in the history of our planet. In the blink of a geologic eye ...

Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum Around 540 million years ago, the world witnessed the Cambrian explosion: a fast-paced period of evolution that produced more advanced organisms than ever ...

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a geologic timespan that predates the Cambrian explosion. An international ...

Scientists who study such things call this the "Cambrian explosion" because it was a period of rapid evolution. Major animal groups emerged, competition and predation for food resources increased ...