Life quickly finds a way: The surprisingly swift end to evolution's big bang
The Cambrian explosion more than 500 million years ago is often considered biology's "big bang".
Evolution
Feb 19, 2019
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Uranium-lead dating shows that the Cambrian explosion is younger than previously thought
Using uranium-lead dating, Senckenberg scientists, in cooperation with an international team, were able to date the onset of the "Cambrian explosion" to precisely 538.8 million years ago. During the "Cambrian explosion," ...
Archaeology
Dec 19, 2018
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Earth's oldest animals formed complex ecological communities
A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota.
Ecology
Sep 17, 2018
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Researchers report the earliest fossil footprints
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong put the first human footprint on the moon. But when did animals leave the first footprint on Earth?
Archaeology
Jun 6, 2018
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Did extreme fluctuations in oxygen, not a gradual rise, spark the Cambrian explosion?
Five hundred and forty million years ago, during the Cambrian period, life suddenly went nuts. "Blossomed" is far too mild a word: instead, geologists call this sudden diversification an "explosion." But what exactly sparked ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2018
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Major fossil study sheds new light on emergence of early animal life 540 million years ago
All the major groups of animals appear in the fossil record for the first time around 540-500 million years ago—an event known as the Cambrian Explosion—but new research from the University of Oxford in collaboration ...
Archaeology
May 21, 2018
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Fossilized brains of ancient sea creatures found in northern Greenland
A team of researchers from Korea, the U.K. and Denmark has found fossilized brains of sea creatures that lived during the Cambrian explosion. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes ...
Cancer tumours could help unravel the mystery of the Cambrian explosion
Could tumours help us explain the explosion of life of Earth? Scientists have typically explained the period of history when large animal species became much more diverse very quickly as the result of the planet's rising ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2018
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Novel hypothesis on why animals diversified on Earth
Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so, and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about a half-billion years ago. A biological innovation ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2018
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Pond scum explains evolution of first animals
Microbial mats that existed on sea floors prior to the Cambrian explosion provided the foundation for early animal life to arise, new research looking at trace fossils of that early life has found.
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2018
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