The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation[1] or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time beginning approximately 538.8 million years ago in the Cambrian period of the early …

Cambrian explosion, the unparalleled emergence of organisms between 541 million and approximately 530 million years ago at the beginning of the Cambrian Period. The event was characterized by the …

Around 530 million years ago, a wide variety of animals burst onto the evolutionary scene in an event known as the Cambrian explosion. In perhaps as few as 10 million years, marine animals evolved …

Jul 2, 2024 · New research provides the clearest evidence to date that a rapid burst of evolution 540 million years ago could have been caused by a small increase in oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and …

Jul 31, 2025 · But the “explosion”—that rapid burst of evolutionary innovation—occurred mostly within the first 20 to 25 million years of the Cambrian, making it extraordinarily fast by geological standards.

Feb 16, 2016 · What Sparked the Cambrian Explosion? An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals. The trigger behind that revolution is finally …

Jul 14, 2021 · The Cambrian Explosion by nature is a three-phased explosion of animal body plans alongside episodic biomineralization, pulsed change of generic diversity, body size variation, and …

Jul 8, 2023 · It wasn't truly an explosion, he told Live Science, but rather a gradual increase in biodiversity that took place throughout the early Paleozoic era (541 million to 251.9 million years ago).

Oct 1, 2025 · So how did the Cambrian explosion come to overshadow all other evolutionary explosions to become “ the Cambrian explosion”? And how have these developments shaped discussions of the …

Jan 22, 2025 · This locality reveals the presence of creatures originating from the “Cambrian explosion”—an evolutionary burst of animal origins dating from 545 to 525 million years ago. The …