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 ...

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 Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

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 ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

Geologists studying the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon have uncovered exciting new insights that challenge traditional ...

This discovery has the potential to bridge gaps in our knowledge of animal life during the late Cambrian period ... as trilobites featured three lobes on their exoskeletons. These sea creatures had ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...