with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

Although the Cambrian explosion is often touted as this amazing geologic event that kickstarted complex life on Earth (and ..

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was ... Specimen from Florida Keys Marine Life Although these rangeomorphs dominated the deep-sea ecosystem at Mistaken Point for ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on Earth is much longer. For years, scientists have estimated that LUCA ...

The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion ... was being laid down, sea levels were rising, covering the submerged land with emerging marine life.

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...