3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era ... were among the most successful organisms ever to populate Earth. These familiar marine arthropods first arose about 545 million ...

It belonged to a more obscure period, inhabited by cryptic ... Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst ...

encompassed the Cambrian explosion, a period when life diversified dramatically and radiated into new niches. The second "step" in the staircase of Earth's spin occurred roughly 340 million to 280 ...

One of the best known examples of that latter phenomenon is the Cambrian Explosion—the geologic period some 530 million years ago when Earth saw an immense uptick in the complexity of life in ...

Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual evolution of a "genetic tool kit" of genes that govern ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian ... period of evolutionary boom, according to Liu Lu, assistant researcher of the museum's ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction.

Internal, genetic factors were also crucial. Recent research suggests that the period prior to the Cambrian explosion saw the gradual evolution of a "genetic tool kit" of genes that govern ...

New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.

the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The discovery, led by Prof. Liu Feng, from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS) of the Chinese Academy of ...