All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

But here in the Burgess Shale, the conditions were just right for preventing decomposition, an underwater landslide ... It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth ...

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 ...

Knewz.com explored that the Cambrian period was a tremendous time ... needed information about the predators of this period’s underwater world. Several of these early creatures were soft-bodied ...

Something dramatic happened about 500 million years ago called the Cambrian "explosion," during which an incredible diversity ...