Tag: Cambrian Explosion

  • Nation & World

    Lighting the fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

    Harvard paleontologists have shed new light on one of the most enduring mysteries of life on Earth: the origins of the creatures that suddenly appear in the fossil record 530 million years ago in an event known as the Cambrian Explosion.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Animal interaction behind ‘Cambrian Explosion’?

    Harvard Professor of Biology and of Geology Charles Marshall presented his Tuesday (April 29), suggesting that it was an increase in interactions between species, such as predation, that drove an escalating evolutionary process that led to the development of teeth and claws and the wide variety of characteristics that we see among Earth’s animals today.

    5 minutes